Numerical investigation of an ablation-dominated plasma armature

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 1 PART 1, 1997, Pages 47-52

  Dirr, Bernhard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT DENSITY; DRAG; FRICTION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT RADIATION; PLASMA FLOW; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PROJECTILES;

ABLATION DOMINATED PLASMA ARMATURE;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0030648004     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.559859     Document Type: Article

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