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Subject Categories: BALLISTICS AND PROJECTILES.
Title: "The Aerodynamic Actions Characterizing the Motion of
Tails-Less
Projectiles"
Personal Authors: Busato M. G.
Report Date: LUY 2005
Pages: 67 PAGES
Dimension: 1040 KB
Format: pdf
Key Word: AEROBALLISTICS, EXTERIOR BALLISTICS, PROJECTILES, AMMUNITION,
BODY OF REVOLUTION, AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS, AERODYNAMIC FORCE, AERODYNAMIC
MOMENT, AERODYNAMIC COEFFICIENT, DRAG, LIFT, PITCH DAMPING FORCE, MAGNUS FORCE,
MAGNUS CROSS FORCE, OVERTURING MOMENT, PITCH DAMPING MOMENT, MAGNUS MOMENT,
MAGNUS CROSS MOMENT, SPIN DAMPING MOMENT, NORMAL FORCE, AXIAL FORCE, ANGLE OF
ATTACK, MACH NUMBER, REYNOLDS NUMBER.
Abstract: This paper investigates the aerodynamic actions acting on a tails-less projectile with constant mass. To define the overall aerodynamic strength acting on the projectile is used a semi-empirical approach based on the study of the main physical phenomena the strength is originated from. The problem of the interaction of the projectile and the air is split into some elementary problems involving each aerodynamic action, the sum of which gives the overall aerodynamic strength. This approach allows to clarify the physical meaning of the aerodynamic strengths acting on a projectile (drag, lift, etc). The overall aerodynamic momentum is defined in an analogue way using the definition of the aerodynamic strength. The last paragraph reports some synoptic tables and figures that summarize the former paragraphs.