# Review of Inductive Pulsed Power Generators for Railguns

## TL;DR

This paper reviews various inductive pulsed power generator designs and their applications in railgun research, highlighting their advantages, disadvantages, and key circuit topologies.

## Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of inductive storage designs and circuit topologies used in railgun pulsed power systems, summarizing recent developments and practical implementations.

## Key findings

- Comparison of inductive storage types like solenoids, toroids, and force-balanced coils.
- Analysis of circuit topologies such as XRAM, meat grinder, and pulse transformer.
- Summary of inductor systems used in railgun research with key characteristics.

## Abstract

This literature review addresses inductive pulsed power generators and their major components. Different inductive storage designs like solenoids, toroids and force-balanced coils are briefly presented and their advantages and disadvantages are mentioned. Special emphasis is given to inductive circuit topologies which have been investigated in railgun research such as the XRAM, meat grinder or pulse transformer topologies. One section deals with opening switches as they are indispensable for inductive storages and another one deals briefly with SMES for pulsed power applications. In the end, the most relevant inductor systems which were realized in respect to railgun research are summarized in a table, together with its main characteristics.