The distributed energy store railgun, its efficiency, and its energy store implications

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 1 PART 1, 1997, Pages 582-588

  Marshall, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; ELECTRIC LOSSES;

BREECH FED RAILGUN SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY STORE (DES) RAILGUN SYSTEM; INDUCTANCE LOSSES; RESISTIVE ENERGY LOSS;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0030702263     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.560078     Document Type: Article

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