A bench top railgun with distributed energy sources

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 167-169

  Mankowski, J ^b   Dickens, J ^b   Giesselmann, M ^b   McDaniel, B ^b   McHale, B ^b   Kristiansen, M ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Texas Tech University   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitive energy storage; Electromagnetic launching; Electromagnetic launching power supplies; Railgun power supplies; Railguns

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS; ENERGY RESOURCES; ENERGY STORAGE;

CAPACITIVE ENERGY STORAGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHING POWER SUPPLIES; RAILGUN POWER SUPPLIES;

RAIL GUNS;

EID: 33846242535     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.887713     Document Type: Article

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