Engineering Design Handbook - Liquid-Filled Projectile Design:

This 1969 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. The Handbook summarizes the state of our present knowledge which is directly useful to the designer. Since the dynamics of the liquid-filled projectile is less familiar to the designers than the dynamics of the rigid projectile, this Handbook gives more of the theoretical background of solved problems than is usually found in other volumes of the Engineering Handbook Series. The emphasis, however, is on the understanding the physics of the problem rather than mathematics. Thus Chapter 2 contains a brief review of the dynamics of a rigid projectile; Chapters 3 to 8, inclusive, deal with the dynamics of the liquid and its reaction on the containing cavity. Chapter 9 is the design chapter where the rules for the design of the liquid-filled projectile are explicitly stated.