Rail heating analysis for multishot em gun operation

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 398-402

  Fish, S ^a   Phipps, C ^a   Tang, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooling; heating; railguns; thermal

Indexed keywords

COOLING; ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEATING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ELECTRICAL MECHANICAL SIMULATION; RAIL HEATING;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0032626503     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.738439     Document Type: Article

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