The magnetically driven imploding liner parameter space of the Atlas capacitor bank

The Atlas capacitor bank (23 MJ, 30 MA, 240 kV) is now operational at Los Alamos. Atlas was designed to magnetically drive imploding liners for use as impactors in shock and hydrodynamic experiments. We have conducted a computational "mapping" of the high-performance imploding liner parameter space accessible with Atlas. The effect of charge voltage, transmission inductance, liner thickness, liner initial radius, and liner length, as well as other parameters, has been investigated. Our study shows that Atlas is ideally suited to be a liner driver for liner-on-plasma experiments in a magnetized target fusion context.