Theoretical Modeling of Accelerating Arc Plasmas

Abstract

This document covers research on railguns with seminars on plasma instabilities of railgun armatures. Work was completed on numerically solving a fourth order eigenvalue equations which described the development of the Krusal Schivarychild instability in armature plasmas with finite conductivity and compressibility. In addition, a two dimensional flux corrected magnetohydrodynamic code was written to model the arc dynamics in a more detailed fashion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 07, 1987
Accession Number
ADA176991

Entities

People

  • Manuel A. Huerta

Organizations

  • University of Miami

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Velocity
  • Air Force
  • Armatures
  • Classification
  • Conductivity
  • Differential Equations
  • Dispersion Relations
  • Equations
  • Geometry
  • Instability
  • Long Wavelengths
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Numerical Integration
  • Physics
  • Security
  • Two Dimensional
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Plasma Physics.