DISCHARGE OF THE PLASMA GENERATOR IN ELECTROTHERMAL-CHEMICAL LAUNCHERS

Authors
SONG SY ZHOU ZK SUN CW
Citation
Sy. Song et al., DISCHARGE OF THE PLASMA GENERATOR IN ELECTROTHERMAL-CHEMICAL LAUNCHERS, IEEE transactions on magnetics, 33(1), 1997, pp. 328-333
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic","Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE transactions on magnetics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00189464
Volume
33
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Part
1
Pages
328 - 333
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9464(1997)33:1<328:DOTPGI>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
This paper describes characteristics of discharge for the plasma gener ator in electrothermal-chemical(ETC) launchers by means of both experi ments and numerical simulations. The dependence of plasma properties o n the pulse forming network(PFN) and especially, on the capillary size has been investigated, It has been concluded that there is an optimiz ed design of plasma generator when the caliber of ETC launcher and the initial energy stored in PFN are given.