ASC Image Library
ParaView Simulation
A view of an unstructured volume rendering, captured from ParaView, of an ALEGRA-HEDP simulation involving one wire in a 30-wire periodic wire array.
The combination of mass abalation due to electrical heating and magnetic forces about the wire (the red post-like structure on the right) causes wire material to ablate non-uniformly from the wire, traveling inside of the array (toward the left of the image) before any stagnation. Non-uniform mass ablation from wires is seen experimentally and is believed to significantly impact the net radiated power from Sandia's Z machine.