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
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