A NUMERICAL METHOD FOR CALCULATING INTERIOR BALLISTICS

Abstract

A procedure is formulated which calculates the interior ballistics properties of guns by numerically integrating the partial differential equations appropriate to the dynamics of the propellant gas. The equations which describe the interior ballistics are one-dimensional along the gun barrel, assuming a uniform cross section.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0712846

Entities

People

  • Harold L. Brode
  • James E. Enstrom

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adiabatic Flames
  • Ballistics
  • Combustion
  • Difference Equations
  • Energy Conservation
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Gun Barrels
  • Guns
  • Heat Loss
  • Interior Ballistics
  • Muzzle Velocity
  • Naval Guns
  • Numerical Integration
  • Propellants
  • Shock Waves
  • Specific Heat

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics
  • Physics

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • ballistics.