{"title":"Simulation of the Eddy Current Effects on the Inductance Gradient of Railgun","authors":"W. Yuan, P. Yan","doi":"10.1109/ELT.2008.123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ELT.2008.123","url":null,"abstract":"Inductance gradient of railgun is one of the most important parameters to railgun launch efficiency. The inductance gradient of simple railgun without metal container (tube) can be calculated via Kerrisk's approximate formula when the structure of rails is fixed. However, the metal container would be necessary if the repulsion on the rails is great enough in mega Ampere current railgun. Then eddy current will be induced in metal container because of the variable magnetic flux density. In this paper, the effects eddy current putting on the inductance gradient of railgun are investigated with Maxwell 3D modular of Ansoft Corp.. Models of railgun with metal-insulated combination containment (laminated containment) are simulated and compared with solid metal containment railgun and air containment railgun. The eddy current density and Lorentz force put on amature of each model are calculated. It is found that the inductance gradient fluctuates with the armature position relative to containment and the fluctuating amplitude decreases with the electrical conductivity. The reduction of inductance gradient is very little when the metal segments of containment are not wider than caliber. It's notable that the inductance gradient decreases rapidly near muzzle.","PeriodicalId":170049,"journal":{"name":"2008 14th Symposium on Electromagnetic Launch Technology","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130576367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Homopolar Racer Competition: A Multi-Disciplinary Student Training Tool in Electromagnetic Launch Technology","authors":"T. Engel, G. M. Belarde","doi":"10.1109/ELT.2008.87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ELT.2008.87","url":null,"abstract":"The first electric motor, the homopolar motor, was demonstrated by Michael Faraday in 1821 at the Royal Institution of London. The homopolar motor operates on the principle that a force is produced orthogonal to current and magnetic field. The Homopolar Racer Competition (HRC) is a college-level competition created to raise awareness and interest in electromagnetic launcher technology and research and to serve as a multi-disciplinary training tool in this area. Student teams design, build, and demonstrate a homopolar motor in the form of a vehicle (i.e., the racer) that rolls along the ground. The students learn electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering concepts along with principles from physics and material science. The racer must carry its own battery power during the race. Battery weight cannot exceed 100 grams. Scoring is based on the shortest time to travel the 10 meter track. This investigation will focus on HRC operation and design along with the rules of the event. The investigation will also report the results from the 2008 HRC event at the University of Missouri. The winning racer of that event achieved velocities of 2.4 m/s over the 10-meter track using a single battery.","PeriodicalId":170049,"journal":{"name":"2008 14th Symposium on Electromagnetic Launch Technology","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127946367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improvement of Inductance Gradient in Railgun Using Ferromagnetic Materials","authors":"A. Keshtkar, A. Kalantarnia, M. Kiani","doi":"10.1109/ELT.2008.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ELT.2008.48","url":null,"abstract":"Increase of inductance gradient is one of the most common methods for increasing applied force to projectile. Increase of inductance gradient is reachable by using augmented rails. In the first section of this paper, after definition of problem and electromagnetic equations, effect of variation of rails dimension and distance between rails on inductance gradient, self inductance and mutual inductance for circular and rectangular rails are explored. In the second part, a new method for increasing of inductance gradient in simple railgun and augmented railgun is suggested. This method uses technique that decrease reluctance of flux path and make a noticeable increase in gradient inductance.","PeriodicalId":170049,"journal":{"name":"2008 14th Symposium on Electromagnetic Launch Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130024956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yaohong Sun, P. Yan, W. Yuan, Jun Li, Yingchun Gui, Aimin Lv, J. Nie
{"title":"Design of a 3-Meter Long Electromagnetic Launcher","authors":"Yaohong Sun, P. Yan, W. Yuan, Jun Li, Yingchun Gui, Aimin Lv, J. Nie","doi":"10.1109/ELT.2008.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ELT.2008.27","url":null,"abstract":"A 3-m long, 30-mm square bore launcher has been constructed for electromagnetic launch application at the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS).The main purpose of the launcher is to conduct the basic and applied research in electromagnetic launch. An optimum structure of the insulators was adopted through the stress analysis using the software ANSYS. In order to know about the variation of the gap under a certain stress, an air pressure piston (Maximum air pressure 5 MPa) and a position sensitive detector (PSD) were adopted. The measuring results have shown that the rails gap decreases gradually from breech to muzzle; this kind of design can abate the erosion of the rails caused by arc discharge effectively. A total of 85 tests have been performed, including 17 tests of single module discharging and 68 tests of 9 modules sequential discharging, and the highest muzzle velocity of 1.9 km/s with a 45 g mass was achieved operating at a current of 410 kA, 2 ms pulse duration. This launcher is now used for the fundamental research on armature structure, performance of the pulsed power supply and the diagnostic system. A novel launcher based on the previous experimental results is under development.","PeriodicalId":170049,"journal":{"name":"2008 14th Symposium on Electromagnetic Launch Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130948661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structure Design of an \"Open-Bore\" Electromagnetic Launcher","authors":"J. Nie, Q. Jiao, J. Qin, Jun Li, Jingjing Han","doi":"10.1109/ELT.2008.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ELT.2008.79","url":null,"abstract":"An \"open-bore\" railgun, a small bore of 14 mm with vented top and bottom, was designed especially for the Beijing Institute of Technology Armature Tester (BITAT) Electromagnetic Launcher (EML) Program. This novel design may be a possible solution to avoiding forming \"secondary arc\", and will be mainly employed as a plasma armature tester in the near future. In this paper, a series of numerical simulations on the structural strength and deformation of our railgun are investigated by using the finite element method. A simple plate-mechanics model is also proposed to evaluate the maximum permissible EM force on the insulated support plates. Finally, the optimum design of our railgun is suggested based on the results of the numerical simulations.","PeriodicalId":170049,"journal":{"name":"2008 14th Symposium on Electromagnetic Launch Technology","volume":"158 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127541614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electromagnetic Launching System for Automobiles","authors":"Jiange Zhang, Yang Xiang, Lie Tao, Xiaohui Liu","doi":"10.1109/ELT.2008.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ELT.2008.36","url":null,"abstract":"Cars have become the traffic vehicles increasingly depended by people in current world, thus people pay much attention to car safety and have higher requirements. Nearly every type of cars needs impact test to evaluate safety and the need for impact test system of car safety has been increasing. Conventional safety impact test system is pneumatic, hydraulic or institutional driven. The concept of electromagnetically driven impact test system is proposed in this paper, that is, homopolar generator is used as energy storage and current transformation device and simple rail launcher is as drive. It has advantages such as short acceleration lemgth, stable acceleration , easy operation and control, with main parameters as 500~2000 kg of load mass and 36~80 km/h of speed.","PeriodicalId":170049,"journal":{"name":"2008 14th Symposium on Electromagnetic Launch Technology","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126914303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Study of Electric Field of High-Power Supercapacitors","authors":"Jinyan Song, Li Zhang, Ji-Yan Zou","doi":"10.1109/ELT.2008.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ELT.2008.113","url":null,"abstract":"The supercapacitor has large potential on electric cars, the power supply of electromagnetism launch system as a new type storage energy element. In this work, it is intended to discuss the charge and electric field distributing models of two kinds of supercapacitors: the double layer of porous electrode and the hybrid supercapacitor that is composed of anodes of electrolytic capacitors, cathodes of electrochemical capacitors, and 38 wt% H2SO4 electrolyte solution. It explores the factors of thickness, pore distributing, and permittivity influenced on the electric field of supercapacitors by ANSYS and reveals the distributing charge of supercapacitors. On the basis of the discussion and analysis, the result shows that changing physical parameters, such as electrode structure and material, and the electric parameters can optimize the structures and performance of supercapacitors to improve the energy density and the power density, and increase the instantaneous discharge current.","PeriodicalId":170049,"journal":{"name":"2008 14th Symposium on Electromagnetic Launch Technology","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126226359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Shield Orifice on the Electromagnetic Interference Factor in HPM","authors":"A. Keshtkar, A. Kalantarnia","doi":"10.1109/ELT.2008.86","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ELT.2008.86","url":null,"abstract":"One of the common methods for protection against HPM is using from conductive shield. In order to evaluation of SE (Shielding Effectiveness), a desired electromagnetic environment must be provided. In this paper, we use from RC (Reverberation Chamber) for making electromagnetic environment. Before SE computation we have considered different polarization of transmission antenna and effect of QRD (Quadratic Residue Diffuser) in field uniformity. On the basis of IEC 61000-4-21 standard, we present a new method for increase of field uniformity. In other part, SE has been computed for different geometry of apertures by 3D-FEM. Furthermore on the basis of resonance frequency and new concept, \"minus bandwidth\", we present SE curves in term of aperture dimensions.","PeriodicalId":170049,"journal":{"name":"2008 14th Symposium on Electromagnetic Launch Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129196812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analytical Analysis of Flow in a Magnetohydrodynamic Pump (MHD)","authors":"M. Ghassemi, H. Rezaeinezhad, A. Shahidian","doi":"10.1109/ELT.2008.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ELT.2008.117","url":null,"abstract":"The interaction of moving conducting fluids with electric and magnetic fields provides the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) phenomenon. Based on this principle, MHD pump uses the \"Lorentz Force\" to move fluid. The railgun channel is one important segment in an electromagnetic launcher. As known one of the possible ways to increase the EML efficiency is to segment the working channel. For this purpose MHD flow study is necessary. It is required to have the knowledge of the flow field to design a magnetohydrodynamic pump. The purpose of this study is to analytically investigate the effect of Hartman number as well as magnetic and electrical angular frequency on the velocity distribution in a magnetohydrodynamic pump. To solve the governing differential equation, initially a velocity profile is guessed and then the Navier-Stokes is solved. Results show that as Hartman number approaches zero the velocity profile becomes similar to that of fully developed flow in a pipe. Furthermore, for frequency over 10pi rad/sec the flow can be treated as steady state. However below angular frequency of 10pi rad/sec velocity oscillates constantly. Therefore flow can not be treated as steady state.","PeriodicalId":170049,"journal":{"name":"2008 14th Symposium on Electromagnetic Launch Technology","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133013319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Q. Lv, Bin Lei, Mingliang Gao, Zhi-yuan Li, X. Chi, He Li
{"title":"MFCG as Future Military PPS","authors":"Q. Lv, Bin Lei, Mingliang Gao, Zhi-yuan Li, X. Chi, He Li","doi":"10.1109/ELT.2008.108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ELT.2008.108","url":null,"abstract":"As a kind of mobile pulsed power supply (PPS), the magnetic flux compression generator (MFCG) can be used in many military fields, but the MFCG concept has not been explored systematically. The definitions of MFCG were given in two ways: the electric circuit model and the magnetic field model, and the latter was indispensable to resolve many technical difficulties. According to the field model, the working principles of the MFCG with perfect solenoid were shown as the magnetic flux conservation or the magnetic flux linkage conservation. The inherent coherence of the two definitions was also outlined. The names of MFCGs were discussed, and the distinguishing features of MFCG from other pulsed generators were summarized. According to the different forms of the windings and the different moving modes of the armatures, 14 kinds of MFCGs were classified systematically, and their characteristics were generalized respectively. The most useful kinds of MFCGs were the piston type, the explosive one, and the rotary one. Their technical aspects were reviewed. The key technology of the piston type MFCG was analyzed and the conclusion is that the conical armature without any longitudinal slits on its surface is necessary. The working process of the two stages explosive MFCG for the microwave bomb was analyzed: the first stage as a magnetic energy accumulator, and the second as a pulsed generator. The CPA, as a kind of rotary MFCG, was developed as a kind of drum alternator in the big ship to power the EM launcher. All those essential work was important for MFCG concept, theory research, technology development, and military applications.","PeriodicalId":170049,"journal":{"name":"2008 14th Symposium on Electromagnetic Launch Technology","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133476583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}