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In this paper, using experimental data, we develop an algorithm for calculating the parameters of combined electric-discharge energy sources in a high-voltage electrochemical explosion (HVECE) (pulse current generator parameters, discharge gap length, and exothermic composition mass). These parameters provide the energy characteristics specified by the technology of an HVECE in a confined volume. To eliminate the multivariance of the solutions when the proposed algorithm is used, we recommend using the amount of released chemical energy per unit of electrical energy introduced into the HVECE channel as an optimization criterion.

Based on the experimental studies of the energy characteristics of a high-voltage electrochemical explosion (HVEE) in limited volumes, the use of a combined parameter γ that takes into account the characteristics of a limited volume, which, along with the electrophysical quantities E0 and ωτ, determines the value of the specific energy efficiency μ of the exothermic compound during the HVEE in limited volumes, i.e., μ = f (ωτ, E0, γ), is proposed and proven. The general dependence of the relative value of the specific energy efficiency μ/μ0 of the chosen exothermic compound during the HVEE in limited volume on the combined parameter γ is established and can be used in the calculation of the combined energy source with respect to the requirements of a particular technology.