Damping of modal perturbations in solid rocket motors

2016 ◽  
Vol 120 (1231) ◽  
pp. 1425-1445 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Iyer ◽  
V.K. Chakravarthy ◽  
S. Saha ◽  
D. Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Computational Fluid Dynamic ◽  
Fluid Dynamic ◽  
Sectional Area ◽  
Dynamic Simulations ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Solid Rocket Motors ◽  
Rocket Motors ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Solid Rocket ◽  
High Length

ABSTRACTQuasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) tools developed for capturing flow and acoustic dynamics in non-segmented solid rocket motors are evaluated using multi-dimensional computational fluid dynamic simulations and used to characterise damping of modal perturbations. For motors with high length-to-diameter ratios (of the order of 10), remarkably accurate estimates of frequencies and damping rates of lower modes can be obtained using the the quasi-1D approximation. Various grain configurations are considered to study the effect of internal geometry on damping rates. Analysis shows that lower cross-sectional area at the nozzle entry plane is found to increase damping rates of all the modes. The flow-turning loss for a mode increases if the more mass addition due to combustion is added at pressure nodes. For the fundamental mode, this loss is, therefore, maximum if burning area is maximum at the centre. The insights from this study in addition to recommendations made by Blomshield(1)based on combustion considerations would be very helpful in realizing rocket motors free from combustion instability.

Quasi-One-Dimensional Modeling of Internal Ballistics and Axial Acoustics in Solid Rocket Motors

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 882-891
Author(s):  
V. Kalyana Chakravarthy ◽  
Arvind S. Iyer ◽  
Debasis Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Solid Rocket Motors ◽  
Rocket Motors ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Modeling ◽  
Internal Ballistics ◽  
Solid Rocket

Towards real-time fire data synthesis using numerical simulations

2021 ◽  
pp. 073490412199344
Author(s):  
Wolfram Jahn ◽  
Frane Sazunic ◽  
Carlos Sing-Long
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Computational Fluid Dynamic ◽  
Dynamic Models ◽  
Fluid Dynamic ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Computing Time ◽  
Temperature Correction ◽  
Dynamic Simulations ◽  
Conservation Of Energy ◽  
Fire Scenarios

Synthesising data from fire scenarios using fire simulations requires iterative running of these simulations. For real-time synthesising, faster-than-real-time simulations are thus necessary. In this article, different model types are assessed according to their complexity to determine the trade-off between the accuracy of the output and the required computing time. A threshold grid size for real-time computational fluid dynamic simulations is identified, and the implications of simplifying existing field fire models by turning off sub-models are assessed. In addition, a temperature correction for two zone models based on the conservation of energy of the hot layer is introduced, to account for spatial variations of temperature in the near field of the fire. The main conclusions are that real-time fire simulations with spatial resolution are possible and that it is not necessary to solve all fine-scale physics to reproduce temperature measurements accurately. There remains, however, a gap in performance between computational fluid dynamic models and zone models that must be explored to achieve faster-than-real-time fire simulations.

Predicting burning time variations in solid rocket motors

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 564-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. D. Heister ◽  
R. J. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Burning Time ◽  
Solid Rocket Motors ◽  
Rocket Motors ◽  
Time Variations ◽  
Solid Rocket

Computational fluid dynamic simulations of coal-fired utility boilers: An engineering tool

Fuel ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efim Korytnyi ◽  
Roman Saveliev ◽  
Miron Perelman ◽  
Boris Chudnovsky ◽  
Ezra Bar-Ziv
Keyword(s):  
Computational Fluid Dynamic ◽  
Fluid Dynamic ◽  
Dynamic Simulations ◽  
Utility Boilers
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