Secondary Arc Formation Within a Distributed Energy Railgun

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2738-2746

  Karhi, Ryan W ^a   Mankowski, John J ^a   Dickens, James C ^a   Kristiansen, Magne ^a   Wetz, David A ^b  

^a Texas Tech University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed energy railgun; plasma armature railgun; railgun

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008048142     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2008.2004228     Document Type: Article

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