2. If the current carrying rod is sufficiently large (a few millimeters in our installation), it is only partly evaporated by a discharge, and the factors influencing performance can be quantitatively studied. In particular, the amount of material melted and evaporated, and the temperatures reached by the current-carrying sheath, called the M-M (metal-megagauss) interface, can be investigated.

The physical description in itself can be based on the kind of coupling being involved (i.e., thermal, gravitational, electromagnetic, or by matter exchange). Gravitational coupling is related to celestial mechanics and tidal deformation. Thermal coupling is ultimately concerned with energy balance. Matter exchange is concerned with the interaction between contiguous systems, and particularly i...

The application of seawall deflectors for reflecting inviscid waves into the sea have been well established. Recently, rigid barrier deflectors have been proposed prescriptively for mitigating geophysical landslides, but flow characteristics differ fundamentally from waves and merit investigation. In this study, flume tests were used to calibrate a discrete element model to explore the interact...