Thermal management and resistive rail heating of a large-scale naval electromagnetic launcher

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 1 II, 2005, Pages 235-240

  Smith, A N ^a,b,c   Ellis, R L ^a,b,c   Bernardes, J S ^a,b,c   Zielinski, A E ^a,b,c  

^a UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^b NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic railgun; Resistive heating; Thermal management

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; NAVAL ARCHITECTURE; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL LOAD;

CURRENT DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RAILGUN; RESISTIVE HEATING; THERMAL MANAGEMENT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS;

EID: 12344258189     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.839269     Document Type: Article

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