SSS.6.40 - Research Supplement: The PEW Science Omega Back Pressure Metric (Public Article)
/Firearm silencers reduce muzzle blast sound signature by restricting the rate at which combustion products exit the weapon system and are exposed to atmospheric conditions. Various silencer designs exhibit different flow rate restriction, dependent upon initial combustion product flow rate and amplitude, internal geometry, and even mounting characteristics that influence entrance aperture into the silencer assembly and flow interaction with internal geometry.
The subject of this publication is to present a non-intrusive method of flow restriction quantification, using existing externally measured data. A preliminary research quantity is presented: The PEW Science Back Pressure Metric, Omega.
Read More