Railgun bore geometry, round or square

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 427-431

  Marshall, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

bore geometry; electromagnetic launcher; propulsion; railgun

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPULSION; GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; VELOCITY;

BORE GEOMETRY; BREECH FED LAUNCHER;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0032689201     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.738445     Document Type: Article

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