Study of a new railgun configuration with perforated sidewalls
Conference
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· IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)
OSTI ID:5871688
- Fusion Technology and Charged Particle Research Lab., Urbana, IL (United States)
A new railgun configuration with perforated sidewalls is investigated. The motivation for this new configuration is the desire to minimize the detrimental effects of inertial and viscous drag at high velocities caused by the debris from the projectile and the gun wall trapped in the plasma armature. The test has been done on a 1.2 m long railgun with a 3.2-mm-diameter bore. Results for hydrogen pellet acceleration show that at high currents the perforated railgun outperforms the unperforated one. Combined with a newly designed cryogenic pellet generator and the first stage gas gun, a solid hydrogen pellet velocity of 2.46 km/s has been achieved on the 1.2-m railgun.
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-84ER52111
- OSTI ID:
- 5871688
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9204102--
- Conference Information:
- Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States) Journal Volume: 29:1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
700460* -- Fusion Technology-- Heating & Fueling Systems
ACCELERATORS
ARMATURES
DESIGN
DRAG
FUEL FEEDING SYSTEMS
FUEL SYSTEMS
Fu
Fuels-- (1992)
PELLET INJECTION
PROJECTILES
RAILGUN ACCELERATORS
THERMONUCLEAR REACTOR FUELING
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
TOKAMAK TYPE REACTORS
WALLS
700460* -- Fusion Technology-- Heating & Fueling Systems
ACCELERATORS
ARMATURES
DESIGN
DRAG
FUEL FEEDING SYSTEMS
FUEL SYSTEMS
Fu
Fuels-- (1992)
PELLET INJECTION
PROJECTILES
RAILGUN ACCELERATORS
THERMONUCLEAR REACTOR FUELING
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
TOKAMAK TYPE REACTORS
WALLS