Intercomparison between FRG and US Thermodynamic Codes

Abstract

A round robin (ringversuch) has been conducted among various FRG thermodynamic codes, between two US codes, and between one FRG and one US code. The agreement within each country is excellent. Comparison between the two countries is hampered by the correction for non-ideal gas behavior in the only available West German results. It is probable that they would show good agreement in the limit of ideal gas behavior. The US BLAKE code gives slightly smaller co-volumes than does the West German code; the larger values are probably the better ones. The definition of heat capacity by hot reacting gases is not the same in all codes and requires some attention by ballisticians.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA146622

Entities

People

  • Eli Freedman

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Artillery
  • Ballistics
  • Computations
  • Computer Programs
  • Engineering
  • Equations Of State
  • Gun Propellants
  • Heat Capacity
  • Ideal Gas Law
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Military Research
  • Munitions
  • Propellants
  • Thermodynamic Properties
  • Thermodynamics

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