Modeling of a compulsator and railgun system

Michael Giesselmann; Don Eccleshall

doi:10.1109/20.911805

Modeling of a compulsator and railgun system

Michael Giesselmann, Don Eccleshall

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Abstract

A PSpice® model for a 4-phase, 4-pole air core compulsator was created. With minor modifications it could also model the performance of other pulse alternators. In addition, models for a railgun and switching elements have been created. The models were used to evaluate the system performance of the compulsator and an attached railgun in various configurations with diode rectifiers and SCR's. The process of self-excitation of the machine was also studied. The paper is focusing on the basic theory behind the models as well as techniques for numerical implementation. In addition generic results using normalized parameters are given.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	129-134
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Volume	37
Issue number	1 I
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/20.911805
State	Published - Jan 2001
Event	10th Electromagnetic Launch Technology (EML) Symposium - San Francisco, CA, United States Duration: Apr 25 2000 → Apr 28 2000

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Pulsed alternators
Railguns

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