Water Entry and the Cavity-Running Behavior of Missiles

Abstract

This report contains a comprehensive compilation of test data and analytical techniques for predicting the behavior of vehicles during water entry and during the cavity-running phase. It contains data to predict the water impact forces on nose shapes such as disks, cones, ogives, spheres, cusps, disk ogives, etc. during vertical and oblique water entry. Cavity development phenomena are discussed and approximate ways of predicting cavity size and shape are presented. Stability characteristics during the early running phase are also discussed. In general, the report is intended to provide the necessary data for the design of water-entry ordnance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA020429

Entities

People

  • Albert May

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Froude Number
  • Geometric Forms
  • Geometry
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Mechanics
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Photography
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Marine Propulsion Engineering and Naval Architecture