Book Description

This handbook is one of a series on ballistics. It deals with the dynamics of liquid-filled projectiles which are known to behave in an unpredictable manner in flight. Until rather recently the causes of such misbehavior were not well understood. Whenever such problems arose in practice they were usually treated on an ad hoc basis, i.e., by engineering trial and error methods. Such methods, as a rule, are time-consuming and expensive. Recently, however, considerable progress has been made in this field. For certain limited geometries of cavity shapes, such as the cylinder or near cylinder, it is now possible to give the designer a set of simple rules for the rational design of liquid-filled projectiles that will be dynamically stable in flight. (Author).