Theoretical Gun Propellant Thermochemical Evaluation

Abstract

A computer program is presented for the computation of chemical equilibrium reaction products associated with gun propellant combustion. The program as developed at the Air Force Armament Laboratory was based on a code used by the NASA Lewis Research Center. The program provides a first approximation of flame temperature, specific heat ratio, impetus, and mean molecular weight of the combustion products. A simplified users manual is presented for thermochemical programs and for the program to generate specific heat polynomials from JANAF tabular data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0885781

Entities

People

  • Otto K. Heiney

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Chemical Elements
  • Chemical Equilibrium
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Products
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Equations
  • Free Energy
  • Gun Propellants
  • Molecular Weight
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Polynomials
  • Specific Heat
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Thermodynamic Properties

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • ballistics.