Friction in rail guns
Abstract
The influence of friction is included in the present equations describing the performance of an inductively driven rail gun. These equations, which have their basis in an empirical formulation, are applied to results from two different experiments. Only an approximate physical description of the problem is attempted, in view of the complexity of details in the interaction among forces of this magnitude over time periods of the order of milisecs.
- Publication:
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17th International Electric Propulsion Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984iep..conf..384K
- Keywords:
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- Friction;
- Railgun Accelerators;
- Spacecraft Propulsion;
- Energy Dissipation;
- Friction Drag;
- Lorentz Force;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering