Casbar User's Guide

Abstract

The Collaborative Australian Ballistics Research code, Casbar, is a simulation tool for the analysis of the interior ballistics of guns. The code solves a two-phase, axisymmetric form of the governing equations for the flow of gas and particulates in the gun, and accommodates multiple projectiles within the simulation. Casbar is also suitable for investigating intermediate ballistics, and can alternatively be used as a general compressible flow solver. Casbar supports user-customised types of deterred or undeterred propellant grain, flexible definition of initial conditions and ignition sources, and various constitutive submodels for simulating interphase drag and intergranular stress. This document, the Casbar User's Guide, explains the use of the code and available options, and provides a worked example with corresponding input files.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA517407

Entities

People

  • Brendan T. O'flaherty
  • Ian A. Johnston
  • Peter A. Jacobs
  • Rowan Gollan

Organizations

  • University of Queensland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Axisymmetric
  • Ballistics
  • Boundaries
  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Energetic Materials
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Geometry
  • Interior Ballistics
  • Materials
  • Operating Systems
  • Propellant Grains
  • Propellants
  • Simulations

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Rocket Propulsion.