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Accession Number:
AD0918030
Title:
Analysis of an Explosive Projector.
Corporate Author:
DAYTON UNIV OH RESEARCH INST
Report Date:
1973-10-01
Abstract:
A recently patented device for propelling a projectile at high velocity in which the projectile is imbedded paraffin filling a conical void at one end of a solid cylindrical explosive is analyzed. The analysis assumes that a plane detonation wave moving in the explosive is shaped by a wave-reversing disk into a conical wave as it impinges onto the parafin cone. The pressure in the flow induced in the paraffin behind a conical shock refracted into it is calculated and a simplified formula is written for the velocity to which this flow accelerates the projectile. A more refined analysis attempts to take into account the conical nature of this flow and uses for this purpose the axially-symmetric conical flow equations as written by Birkhoff and Walsh. Author
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. 15 Aug 72-1 Feb 73,
Pages:
0044
Contract Number:
F33615-72-C-1282
File Size:
0.00MB
