Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Gooding, T. J..
Capacitor of extended foil construction performs as a distributed parameter pulse line in which current, amplitude, and period are readily controlled. The capacitor is used as the energy storage element in a pulsed plasma accelerator.
Quasi-steady-state operation of arc thrustor obtained with pulse time of few hundred microseconds, producing continuous plasma stream
Quasi-steady-state operation of arc thrustor obtained with pulse time of few hundred microseconds, producing continuous plasma stream
Ion density and velocity in nitrogen exhaust plasma from pulsed coaxial gun on basis of current measurements
Energy measurement in coaxial plasma accelerator determining current, voltage on gun and at open end of pulse line
Current sheet accelerators and pulsed plasma thrustors for spacecraft propulsion
Discussion of the physical processes in a co-axial plasma gun and the problem of employing it for propulsion
Study of a gas-triggered coaxial plasma gun in which 2 operating modes, dependent on the pressure distribution at firing, are obtained
Instabilities in a gas-triggered coaxial plasma gun