Operational requirements and issues for coilgun electromagnetic launchers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 1 II, 2005, Pages 194-199

  Kaye, Ronald J ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Circuit analysis; Coilguns; Electromagnetic induction; Electromagnetic launching; Software verification and validation; Statistics; Switched capacitor circuits; Timing jitter

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; PROJECTILES; STATISTICS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

COILGUNS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHING; SOFTWARE VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION; SWITCHED CAPACITOR CIRCUITS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS;

EID: 12344306648     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.838982     Document Type: Article

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