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FVM and Mesh in Bullet Motion

Bullet projectile motion is an area of interest for the military to reduce forces on bullets and understand the effects of spin, yaw, and angle of attack on bullet motion. Computational fluid dynamics simulations and experiments are used to model bullet motion through air using Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations with various turbulence models. Meshes used in previous studies include hybrid meshes with structured inner grids and unstructured outer grids, as well as fully structured and unstructured meshes, containing between 1-10 million cells.

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FVM and Mesh in Bullet Motion

Bullet projectile motion is an area of interest for the military to reduce forces on bullets and understand the effects of spin, yaw, and angle of attack on bullet motion. Computational fluid dynamics simulations and experiments are used to model bullet motion through air using Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations with various turbulence models. Meshes used in previous studies include hybrid meshes with structured inner grids and unstructured outer grids, as well as fully structured and unstructured meshes, containing between 1-10 million cells.

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FVM AND MESH IN BULLET PROJECTILE MOTION

Bullet projectile motion is an area of research in which the military industry is most interested.
CFD simulations and experimental studies are done to reduce the forces due to muzzle flow and
determine the effect of spin and yawn motion along with angle of attack, on the motion of
bullet in air. The mathematical models used in determining the motion of bullet in an air field
generally use time dependant Reynolds average naiver strokes equations(RANS) with 6 DOF
RBD algorithms containing 3 Euler angles. For turbulent flow the authors used k-omega and k-
epsilon models.

The upwind drag and lift coefficient are the main area of interest in the Simulation models. The
time stepping taken by each author is different. For our case, 3-D FVM will be used to solve two
basic conservation equation i.e. Continuity equation and 2 Equation k-omega model with
enhanced wall treatment capture the drag and lift coefficient. Two types of meshes are used by
previous authors i.e. fully structured and hybrid meshes with, unstructured outer mesh, and an
enhanced mesh near the bullet walls. Following is the summary of mesh generated by previous
authors:

1. Sidra I. Silton et.al used hybrid mesh for a finned canard with a 1.3 million cells with H-
type mesh generation near walls using GRIDGEN (Sidra I. Silton et al., 2016).
2. James DeSpirito et.al used a unstructured outer meshing with an O type near wall
element distribution. The mesher used is GAMBIT (DeSpirito & Plostins, 2007).
3. S. I. Silton again in another study produced a multiblock grid containing 10 blocks of
structured mesh using GRIDGEN (S I Silton, 2005).

4. Jubaraj Sahu used both structured (hexahedral) and unstructured meshing to generate
result and found a close approximation between the results. The mesher used was
Multipurpose Intelligent Meshing Environment (MIME) (Sahu, 2008).
REFRENCES:
● DeSpirito, J., & Plostins, P. (2007). CFD prediction of M910 projectile aerodynamics:
Unsteady wake effect on Magnus moment. AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics
Conference, 2(August), 867–884. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2007-6580
● Sahu, J. (2008). Time-accurate numerical prediction of free-flight aerodynamics of a
finned projectile. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 45(5), 946–954.
https://doi.org/10.2514/1.34723
● Silton, S I. (2005). Navier – Stokes Computations for a Spinning Projectile. 42(2).
● Silton, Sidra I., Sahu, J., & Fresconi, F. (2016). Comparison of uncoupled and coupled
CFD-based simulation techniques for the prediction of the aerodynamic behavior of a
complex projectile. 34th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, June, 1–23.
https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2016-3574

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