Analysis of a capacitor-based pulsed-power system for driving long-range electromagnetic guns

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 486-490

  Bernardes, Jack S ^a   Stumborg, Michael F ^a   Jean, Thomas E ^a  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Circuit modeling; Pulsed power; Railgun

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC GUNS; PULSED POWER SYSTEM; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MICRO-CAP VI;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 0037230384     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.806380     Document Type: Article

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