• DocumentCode
    563301
  • Title

    Modeling of ETC plasma cartridges and their effect on propellant combustion

  • Author

    Sakthivel, N. ; Sarkar, P. ; Chaturvedi, S.

  • Author_Institution
    Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar - 382428, Gujarat, INDIA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    23-28 June 2002
  • Firstpage
    471
  • Lastpage
    474
  • Abstract
    A one-dimensional, time-dependent fluid code has been developed for modeling an electro-thermal chemical (ETC) plasma cartridge. The power flow out of the cartridge is coupled to the interior ballistics code IBHVG2. For given pulse-forming network and gun parameters, the projectile velocity is maximized with respect to cartridge dimensions. In this paper, we report details of the computational model and results of optimization.
  • Keywords
    Propulsion;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    High-Power Particle Beams (BEAMS), 2002 14th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Albuquerque, NM, USA
  • ISSN
    0094-243X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7354-0107-5
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6219490