Abstract

The barrel is a special thick-walled cylinder. It is significance to study the temperature distribution of thick-walled cylinder under liquid-cooled state to weapon launch safety and effectiveness. Taking a naval gun barrel as research objective, a unified thermal-fluid-solid coupling model is put forward including barrel solid wall, the cooling water and the water jacket solid wall. The unsteady coupled temperature field of the barrel is calculated at the time of single and continuous firing and some influencing factors such as cooling water flow velocity, barrel wall thickness and so on, are analyzed to the barrel temperature field. The results show that the water cooling effect of the barrel outer is closely related to the wall thickness and the cooling water flow velocity. When the barrel wall thickness is small, increasing the flow velocity increase heat dissipation and reduce barrel wall temperature obviously. When the barrel wall thickness is large, the water cooling effect depends on the total cooling time and small correlation with the velocity of cooling water flow.

Keywords:

Temperature, thermal-fluid-solid, thick-walled cylinder,

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