Simplified Analytic and Experimental Interior Ballistics of Light Gas Guns

Abstract

A two-stage light gas gun incremental interior ballistic formalism is presented, along with a FORTRAN IV computer program that utilizes the system. Typical input and output data, both plotted and tabular, are included. A standard conventional gun ballistic analytic approach is coupled to a mathematical model of the light gas chamber. Correlations of the mathematical model and computer predictions to experimental device firings are demonstrated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0919960

Entities

People

  • Otto K. Heiney

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Burning Rate
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Chambers
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Gas Guns
  • Gun Propellants
  • Launch Tubes
  • Light Gas Guns
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematical Models
  • Pressure Gradients
  • Propellant Grains
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • ballistics.