Interior ballistics of guns

This book provides systematic coverage of recent and important developments in the science of interior ballistics. Attention is given to the relevant elements of physics and fluid mechanics, practical gun engineering, detailed interior ballistics, propellant quality assurance and control, and techniques used in diagnostic interior-ballistic measurements. Topics include an introduction to gun interior ballistics and a simplified ballistic code, practical interior-ballistic analysis of guns, interior ballistic modeling applied to small-arms systems and to rapid-fire guns, mathematical modeling of recoilless rifle interior ballistics, the theory of high-muzzle-velocity guns, modeling of two-phase flow in guns, charge design considerations and their effect on pressure waves in guns, ignition and flame-spreading phenomena in granular propellant gun charges, research test techniques applied to gun interior ballistics, and a review of gun propellants.