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U.S. Army Workshop on Solid-Propellant Ignition and Combustion Modeling
US Army Workshop on SolidPropellant Ignition and Combustion Modeling Author:Martin S. Miller, David M. Mann, Robert W. Shaw This is a ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A195723. The abstract prov... more »ided by the Pentagon follows: A workshop with the objective to view the current state of the art of energetic-material combustion models within the context of future requirements of gun interior-ballistics (IB) models was held at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, on 9 and 10 April 96. The workshop was motivated by the recognition that modeling and simulation will be an essential cost-saving and time-saving tool in the design, development, testing, and evaluation of future gun-propulsion systems, and that, under current funding constraints, research on the underlying fundamentals must be carefully directed toward the most critical technology barriers. To facilitate this process, a perspective was presented on the fundamental physics and chemistry currently utilized in IB codes (XKTC, etc.) and the extensions planned for advanced codes (the NGEN family). The state of the art in fundamental descriptions of energetic-material combustion was then summarized and discussed with the intent of giving focus to those issues that could impact the future development needs of the IB research community.« less