Ordnance Heating Rates in Shipboard Magazines

Abstract

This report describes a numerical method of determining the heating rate to ordnance cylinders stored in a Ship's Magazine. The source of heating is assumed to be a hydrocarbon fuel fire burning in an adjacent compartment. The heat released from the fire raises the temperature of a common bulkhead which then radiates energy onto the ordnance in the magazine. The method compares well with data available in the literature for shipboard fuel fire. Based on the strength of these comparisons, the method is used to estimate the likely heating rate for the Penguin ASM while mounted within the ANZAC Air Weapons magazine.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA396722

Entities

People

  • Con Doolan

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Energetic Materials
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Explosives
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transmission
  • Hydrocarbon Fuels
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Munitions
  • Organic Materials
  • Radiation
  • Standards

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  • Metallurgy
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