"Applications of Computer Algebra to Gasdynamic Problems of Ballistic" Alain Carriere, Louis-Remi Oudin Institut Franco-Allemand de Recherches de Saint-Louis 5 rue du General Cassagnou F 68301 Saint-Louis Cedex, France ABSTRACT: Most problems of ballistics are modelised by PDE's os simpler ODE's which in general do not have closed form solutions. Therfore numerical integration must be used to solve them. However applying the usual methods requires a tremendeous computing time. Therfore a quasimonomial transformation by Brenig is applied. Most of the ballistic ODE's can be written in canonical QM format which allows to write easily Taylor expansions for numerical purposes. This is applied to gasdynamics problems of terminal and interior ballistics. Particular problems that are discussed are the generation of blast waves by intense (nuclear) explosions and the internal ballistics of guns.