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Joe591
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- Pressure caused by burning propellant.
In thermodynamics you have ideal gas cycles. A example of this is the Otto cycle where there is adiabatic compression followed by constant volume combustion, followed by adiabatic expansion and then finally heat rejection at constant volume. What I'm wondering is whether there is a similar type gas cycle for a projectile being thrown out of a barrel by a burning propellant. Let's say there is a hypothetical potatoes canon with a small fuel reservoir. The fuel in the reservoir is ignited and the potatoes is launched through the barrel. Is there some sort of ''gas cycle'' for something like that? Please cite sources...