Current and Heat Transport in the Solid-Armature Railgun

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 645-650

  Powell, John D ^a   Zielinski, Alexander E ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC WINDINGS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROJECTILES; SKIN EFFECT; STRESSES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC STRESSES; SOLID ARMATURE RAILGUN; VELOCITY EFFECTS;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0029219473     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.364618     Document Type: Article

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