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Electromagnetic Railgun: Shamit Savant Project Advisor Asish Kumar Nayak

The document describes an electromagnetic railgun and its simulation. An electromagnetic railgun uses electromagnetic force to accelerate a sliding armature along conductive rails, launching high velocity projectiles without explosives. Potential applications include weapons, launching aircraft, and mining. The simulation models the railgun using MATLAB. It includes a capacitor bank to deliver current to parallel rails, inducing a magnetic field from a coil to propel a spherical projectile. Plots show voltage over time charging the capacitors and resulting force and current over time on the projectile.

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Electromagnetic Railgun: Shamit Savant Project Advisor Asish Kumar Nayak

The document describes an electromagnetic railgun and its simulation. An electromagnetic railgun uses electromagnetic force to accelerate a sliding armature along conductive rails, launching high velocity projectiles without explosives. Potential applications include weapons, launching aircraft, and mining. The simulation models the railgun using MATLAB. It includes a capacitor bank to deliver current to parallel rails, inducing a magnetic field from a coil to propel a spherical projectile. Plots show voltage over time charging the capacitors and resulting force and current over time on the projectile.

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Electromagnetic Railgun

Shamit Savant Prof. Krishna Kanakgiri Asish Kumar Nayak


181030049
Project advisor 181030036

Jitesh Sonkusare Abhishek Shinde


181030065 181030051

November 8, 2020

I. Introduction Figure 1: Working principle of railgun

A railgun is a device that uses electromagnetic


force to launch high velocity projectiles, by
means of a sliding armature that is accelerated
along a pair of conductive rails. Railguns rely
on electromagnetic force to propel a projectile
at very high velocities(more than 3km/s).

II. Potential Applications


Where F is force, B is magnetic field and Ir
• Railguns are being researched as weapons is current passing through the rails.
that would use neither explosives nor pro- We notice that the direction of force is always
pellant.The absence of explosive propel- outward as shown in f igure1, regardless of
lants or warheads to store and handle con- whether the power supply is AC or DC.
ventional weaponry come as additional
We apply the magnetic field as seen in Figure
advantages.
1 using a current carrying coil. The magnetic
• In addition to military applications, NASA
field intensity of a current carrying coil with N
has proposed to use a railgun to launch
turns is given by the equation
wedge-shaped aircraft with scramjets to
high-altitude at Mach 10, where they will
then fire a small payload into orbit using µ0 N Ic
B= (2)
conventional rocket propulsion. 2r
• Railguns can potentially be used to aid
mining, as a substitute for dynamite for Where r is the radius of the coil, B is mag-
clearing tunnels. netic field intensity and Ic is current passing
through the coil.
As the magnetic field is perpendicular to the
III. Principle current carrying projectile, Eq(1) simplifies to
F = Ir lB. Substituting equation 2 into 1, we
The magnetic force on a current carrying con- get
ductor can be modelled by the equation.

µ0 Nl Ic Ir
~F = Ir~l × ~B (1) F= (3)
2r

1
Electromagnetic Railgun • 8 November 2020

IV. Simulation Figure 3: Plot of voltage across capcitor bank vs time

Because of the restrictions due to Corona Virus


(COVID-19) we decided to complete the en-
tire architecture of the gun on MATLAB and
Simulation. Although we could not make any
physical development in the project we still
gave a thought on the design, after brainstorm-
ing many different setups, we finally settled
on.
• A set of 2 parallel rails Figure 4: Plots of rail current vs time and force vs time
• A sherical projectile which shorts the two
rails, and reduce frictional losses.
• A current carrying coil to apply an exter-
nal, supporting magnetic field.
• A capacitor bank in order to deliver high
currents in a short amount of time to the
rails.

Current progress
We began by designing the Capacitor bank
charging circuit, using simulink (A MATLAB
simulation software).
A detailed schematic of the circuit can be
found below in Figure 1.
explanatory names.
Figure 2 shows the voltage vs time plot of [frame=single] capcitance = 0.0010000 Volt-
the charging capacitors. age = 100 nc apacitors = 10capacitorr ating =
100Seriesr esistance = 1000projectilel ength =
Figure 2: Circuit Diagram of simulated charging circuit 0.020000externalr esistance = 1mass =
0.010000mu0 = 1.2566e − 06radius =
0.030000turns = 200coilc urrent =
5Bc oil = 0.020944e f f c apacitance =
0.010000chargingT imec onstant =
10dischargingT imec onstant = 0.010000Br ails =
0Energys tored = 50

References
• Railgun Physics by web.mit.edu
We ran calculations using a matlab script • Research on proximity effect of electro-
and plotted the force on the projetile vs time magnetic railgun
along with the rail current vs time.(Figure 3) • Research on evaluation of electromagnetic
railgun efficiency
Parameters • NAVSEA-Naval Sea Systems Comamand
• A Look into Railgun Physics and Design
The following are the parameters in our matlab
program to be used in our circuit with self

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