The science and technology of electric launch

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 37, Issue 1 I, 2001, Pages 25-32

  Fair, Harry D ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic launcher; Electrothermochemical launcher; Hypervelocity; Pulsed power

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MILITARY VEHICLES; ORDNANCE; TECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRIC LAUNCHERS; ELECTROTHERMOCHEMICAL LAUNCHERS; HYPERVELOCITY; PULSED POWER;

LAUNCHING;

EID: 0035041110     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.911783     Document Type: Article

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