Projectile nosetip thermal management for railgun launch to space

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 491-495

  McNab, I R ^a,b   Candler, G V ^c   Barbee, C S ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Launch to space; Projectile nosetip; Railgun; Thermal management

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CATAPULTS (AIRCRAFT LAUNCHERS); GRAVITATION; HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

LAUNCH TO SPACE; PROJECTILE NOSETIP; RAILGUN; THERMAL MANAGEMENT;

PROJECTILES;

EID: 33846268802     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.887450     Document Type: Article

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