Compulsator Research at The University of Texas at Austin--An Overview

An overview of compulsator research is presented, including a brief history of the device, electromagnetic and mechanical design considerations, status of machines currently in operation and under development, and future technology. The compulsator appears to have great potential as a power supply for a variety of fields including fusion, industrial applications, directed energy weapons, low-frequency sound sources, and electromagnetic launch (EML) technology. Several machines have been built and tested, successfully demonstrating the principle of operation and showing that a compact rotating machine, operating at high efficiency, can provide a series of appropriate high current pulses without the necessity of complicated conditioning and switching networks