Abstract
In order to improve the life of gun barrel influenced by periodic transient thermal shock during firing, it is necessary to establish the heat conduction model of gun barrel to study the temperature field and its variation rule. Therefore, a mathematical model of two-dimensional nonlinear heat conduction is established. The governing equations and boundary conditions are linearized by Kirchhoff’s variation, and the finite difference equations of internal nodes and boundary nodes are derived using energy balance method and alternating difference implicit scheme. Based on the numerical results of the classics interior ballistic, temperature distribution of some 12.7 mm machine gun barrel during 120 successive firing rounds under the firing specification of the GJB3484-98 is calculated numerically. The temperature field of the external surface of the barrel is tested and the variation law of the temperature field is obtained. Comparison with experimental results shows good agreement with the simulation. The research results provided scientific basic for the studies of new barrel materials and coatings.
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