A rail gun plasma armature model

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1986, Pages 1763-1771

  Tidman, D A ^a   Goldstein, S A ^a   Winsor, N K ^a  

^a GT Devices Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ELECTRIC ARCS; HYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA DEVICES - MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPULSION; PLASMA ARMATURES; RAILGUNS;

ROCKETS AND MISSILES;

EID: 0022805713     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.1986.1064719     Document Type: Article

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