• DocumentCode
    1529914
  • Title

    Hyper velocity acceleration by a pulsed coilgun using traveling magnetic field

  • Author

    Masugata, Katsumi

  • Author_Institution
    Nagaoka Univ. of Technol., Niigata, Japan
  • Volume
    33
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    11/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    4434
  • Lastpage
    4438
  • Abstract
    A method is proposed to accelerate a projectile by using a propagating magnetic field in a pulse transmission network. The acceleration is shown to be limited by the ohmic heating of the projectile and the obtainable final velocity is estimated. The final velocity is shown to be enhanced by a factor of two by cooling the projectile down to 77 K from 300 K. The final velocity is described as a function of the projectile radius and it is shown that more than 10 km/s is obtainable by using a Al projectile of radius more than 0.9 cm. From the result of circuit simulation, magnetic field is confirmed to propagate in the pulse transmission network
  • Keywords
    electromagnetic launchers; magnetic fields; projectiles; 0.9 cm; 10 km/s; 300 to 77 K; circuit simulation; hyper velocity acceleration; ohmic heating; projectile; propagating magnetic field; pulse transmission network; pulsed coilgun; radius; traveling magnetic field; Acceleration; Accelerator magnets; Coilguns; Coils; Electromagnetic launching; Magnetic fields; Power supplies; Projectiles; Railguns; Rails;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9464
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/20.649877
  • Filename
    649877