Jet flow motion during a gas discharge from an external current feed
Abstract
Various types of gas-discharge railgun accelerators are compared. The superiority of a jet-flow-type accelerator employing a gas discharge inside the body with an external current feed is demonstrated. The efficiency augmentation of such accelerators is considered, and a discharge-control technique is examined.
- Publication:
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Pisma v Zhurnal Tekhnischeskoi Fiziki
- Pub Date:
- August 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989PZhTF..15...90A
- Keywords:
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- Acceleration (Physics);
- Gas Discharges;
- Jet Flow;
- Railgun Accelerators;
- Gas Heating;
- Outlet Flow;
- Plasma Dynamics;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering