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Thermal Analysis of the Slow Wave Structure (SWS) Assembly of the Travelling Wave Tube

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Title Thermal Analysis of the Slow Wave Structure (SWS) Assembly of the Travelling Wave Tube
 
Creator Mistry, C
Ghosh, SK
 
Subject Travelling Wave Tubes
 
Description Thermal management of helix slow-wave structure (SWS) in a travelling-wave tube (TWT) has great influence on its performance namely, average power handling capability, TWT efficiency, S-parameters, etc. The main source of thermal load of helix SWS is the intercepted power loss, which is assumed to be uniform over the TWT and as a measure of helix interception current during DC or RF testing. However, practically intercepted power loss would be different in different sections of TWT. Typically, it is higher in output section than input section due to growth of signal. In this paper, thermal analysis of helix SWS has been presented for three different cases namely, uniform heating, non-uniform heating and localized heating respectively and corresponding temperature distribution in different section of the SWS have been estimated using ANSYS.
 
Date 2019
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ceeri.csircentral.net/620/1/54-2018.pdf
Mistry, C and Ghosh, SK (2019) Thermal Analysis of the Slow Wave Structure (SWS) Assembly of the Travelling Wave Tube. In: 20th International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC-2019), April 29-May 1, 2019, Paradise Hotel Busan, South Korea.
 
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