The Institute for Advanced Technology has been conducting experiments on plasma-armature railguns for the past several years. To control the damage mechanisms associated with this class of railgun, an electrothermal (ET) launcher preinjects the projectile into the plasma railgun bore milliseconds before the arc is energized. During the initial testing of the ET launcher, it was found that injection velocities were significantly lower than expected for a given input energy. Subsequent experiments using photonic Doppler velocimetry to resolve velocity as a function of time confirmed this finding. Using an ablative capillary discharge code written by Powell and Zielinski in 1991, the velocity discrepancy is analyzed, and the properties of the propellant gas-such as ionization fractions, the mass of the propellant gas, and the magnitude and decay of the pressure pulse seen by the projectile-are determined.


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    Titel :

    An Investigation of Internal Gas Dynamics for an Electrothermal Launcher


    Beteiligte:
    Motes, D. (Autor:in) / Crawford, M. (Autor:in) / Ellzey, J. (Autor:in) / Stefani, F. (Autor:in) / Wetz, D. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2011


    Format / Umfang :

    7 Seiten, 15 Quellen




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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