U. S. Army Workshop on Solid-Propellant Ignition and Combustion Modeling

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.Army Research Lab Aberdeen Proving Ground is the author of 'U. S. Army Workshop on Solid-Propellant Ignition and Combustion Modeling', published 1997 under ISBN 9781423572107 and ISBN 1423572106.