Experimental Investigation of a Small Bore Plasma Armature Rail Launcher at High Current Densities

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 273-278

  Dirr, Bernhard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ACCELERATION; DRAG; ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INSULATORS; PROJECTILES; VELOCITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

AERODYNAMIC LOSSES; ELECTROTHERMAL PREACCELERATION; PLASMA ARMATURE; PROPULSIVE ARCS; SMALL BORE PLASMA ARMATURE RAIL LAUNCHER;

ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS;

EID: 0029208038     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.364677     Document Type: Article

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