I have been reading though the documents & papers on the Lee model here:

http://www.intimal.edu.my/school/fas/UFLF/File1RADPF.htm
and looking at the nasty excel basic macro code – I’m going to rewrite this in C if I get a chance.

It seems to me that although this model gives fairly accurate figures for the plasma focus device and it’s capacitor/inductor circuit behaviour. It doesn’t really incorporate any of the ‘instabilities’ that are really the key to how it works. How badly does this limit the usefulness of the model?

The model is working with the total current and the pinch current but it does not mention relationship to the peak magnetic field at the focus. Does anyone have any links to explain this (other than just maxwell’s laws).

Also the model has figures for the thermodynamic properties of various gases but not boron – What are the relevant figures for decaborane? How would the model account for a mix of H & B? (and presumably all the combinations of broken up and partially ionized boranes that will end up in the mixture).

Lastly – to add in something like the magnetic field effect to this numerical model, could you, for instance, just add in a simple factor to reduce the amount of bremsstrahlung radiation say as |dI/dt| increased.

James