Review of Solid Propellant Ignition Models Relative to the Interior Ballistic Modelling of Gun Systems

Abstract

The modelling of solid propellant ignition is investigated with the aim of implementation into the numerical code Casbar. The current state of the art in solid propellant ignition and combustion modelling is reviewed, with a simplied condensed phase ignition model chosen as the suitable candidate. A number of methods of solving the mathematical models are analysed, with results compared. Based on these results, the solution by integral methods to the condensed phase model was chosen for implementation into Casbar.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA580876

Entities

People

  • A. Harrland
  • I. A. Johnston

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Burning Rate
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Chemical Reactants
  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Products
  • Composite Propellants
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Exothermic Reactions
  • Gun Propellants
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Transfer
  • Phase
  • Propellant Grains
  • Solid Propellants
  • Thermal Conductivity

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • ballistics.