Design and simulation of a permanent-magnet electromagnetic aircraft launcher

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 566-575

  Patterson, Dean ^a   Monti, Antonello ^b   Brice, Charles W ^b   Dougal, Roger A ^b   Pettus, Robert O ^b   Dhulipala, Srinivas ^b,c   Kovuri, Dilip Chandra ^b,d   Bertoncelli, Tiziana ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^c Orion Systems Integrators   (United States)

^d BNP PARIBAS   (France)

^e POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aircraft launcher; Linear machine; Linear permanent magnet (PM) synchronous machine; PM machine; Power electronic drive; System simulation; Track sectioning

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY; CATAPULTS (AIRCRAFT LAUNCHERS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC DRIVES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MACHINE DESIGN; PERMANENT MAGNETS; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; STATORS;

AIRCRAFT LAUNCHER; LINEAR PERMANENT MAGNET (PM) SYNCHRONOUS MACHINE; POWER ELECTRONIC DRIVE; SYSTEM SIMULATION; TRACK SECTIONING;

SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY;

EID: 17644372010     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2005.844404     Document Type: Article

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