Why plasma armature railguns don't work (and what can be done about it)

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 418-424

  Parker, Jerald V ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC ARCS; HYDROGEN; PLASMA DEVICES;

MIDI-2 EXPERIMENTS; PLASMA ARMATURE RAILGUNS;

ACCELERATION;

EID: 0024480215     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.22574     Document Type: Article

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