High-Performance Computing and Simulation for Advanced Armament Propulsion

Abstract

The U.S. Army is exploring a variety of armament propulsion options for indirect- and direct-fire weapons to be employed in the legacy force and for the Future Combat System (FCS). Development of propelling charges for these weapons requires state-of-the-art physics-based modeling codes. The gun propulsion-modeling environment has traditionally been one in which independently developed and upgraded computer codes were used to analyze different propulsion techniques. with no single maintainable code able to evaluate several candidate system. This situation rendered comparison of ballistic performance for various weapon options cumbersome and inconclusive. In direct response to this situation. the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has developed a "next-generation" computer scaleable. three-dimensional, multi-phase, computational fluid dynamics code for armament propulsion (interior ballistics) modeling.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA424252

Entities

People

  • Michael J. Nusca

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ballistics
  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • High Performance Computing
  • Howitzers
  • Ignition
  • Indirect Fire
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • Propellants
  • Propelling Charges
  • Simulations
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • ballistics.