Ammunition reliability against the harsh environments during the launch of an electromagnetic gun: a review

H Zhang, K Dai, Q Yin - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electromagnetic railguns have an advantage over traditional chemical propulsion weapons,
in that the projectile can be accelerated to extremely high speeds and effective damage can …

Review of the meat grinder circuits for railguns

X Yu, X Liu - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With inherent strengths in energy density and power density, the inductive pulsed power
supplies (IPPS) have become an attractive option for the power supplies in electromagnetic …

Research on armature thrust inductance gradient of the electromagnetic rail launcher

X Zhai, H Liu, Z Peng - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The inductance gradient reflects the armature thrust in the electromagnetic rail launcher
(EML). The inductance gradient is separated into two components: one is the armature thrust …

[PDF][PDF] 电磁轨道炮运行阶段系统发射效率和电枢出膛动能研究

刘旭堃, 于歆杰, 刘秀成, 常馨月 - 电工技术学报, 2017 - researchgate.net
摘要为了研究电磁轨道炮运行阶段关键参数对系统性能的影响, 基于发射过程快速求解方法和
触发策略自动计算方法, 采用参数扫描的方式分析系统发射效率和电枢出膛动能随电枢质量 …

Inductance calculation and energy density optimization of the tightly coupled inductors used in inductive pulsed power supplies

X Liu, X Yu, Z Li - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The air-core flat spirals of strip coil structure is a typical type of the tightly coupled energy
storage inductors used in inductive pulsed power supplies. This paper improves the speed …

The meat grinder with CPFU: A novel circuit for inductive pulsed power supplies

X Liu, X Yu - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel circuit with the better performance for the inductive pulsed power supplies in the
electromagnetic launch system is proposed in this paper, namely, the meat grinder with …

A Novel Technique for Dynamic Analysis of an Electromagnetic Rail Launcher using FEM Coupled with Simplorer

J Lydia, R Karpagam… - The Applied …, 2022 - journals.riverpublishers.com
The performance of a rail gun depends on the current density distribution over the rail and
armature as it determines the force that accelerates the projectile of the rail gun. A finite …

Utilization Optimization of Capacitive Pulsed Power Supply in Railgun

G Cao, H Xiang, Z Qiao, C Liang, X Yuan, J Wang… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
The excitation pulse current used to drive the railgun needs to present very a high
magnitude (hundreds of kA) flat-top with very low ripple. At present, the main method to …

Energy transfer efficiency optimization in an electromagnetic railgun

RT Meyer, RA DeCarlo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electromagnetic railguns (EMRs) launch projectiles by the systematic triggering of current
pulse forming units (PFUs), which release stored capacitor energy. Past work has focused …

Parameter analysis of the energy transfer capacitor in the meat grinder with SECT circuit

X Liu, X Yu, R Ban, Z Li - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The meat grinder with SElf-charged Capacitor and Thyristors circuit is a novel circuit for
inductive pulsed power supplies. The energy transfer capacitor is one of the key …