scholarly journals On the Nature of the Response of the General Purpose Heat Source to the Impact of Large Solid Rocket Motor Casing Fragments

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marshall B. Eck ◽  
Meera Mukunda
Keyword(s):  
Heat Source ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Rocket Motor ◽  
Solid Rocket Motor ◽  
Solid Rocket ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Impact of the Surface Morphology on the Combustion of Simulated Solid Rocket Motor

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Abdelkarim M. Hegab ◽  
Hani Hussain Sait ◽  
Ahmad Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Flow Field ◽  
Surface Morphology ◽  
Aluminum Powder ◽  
Combustion Surface ◽  
Rocket Motor ◽  
Solid Rocket Motor ◽  
Resonance Frequencies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Solid Rocket ◽  
The Impact

An advanced and intensive computational solution development is integrated with an asymptotic technique, to examine the impact of the combustion surface morphology on the generated rotational flow field in a solid rocket chamber with wide ranges of forcing frequencies. The simulated rectangular chamber is closed at one end and is open at the aft end. The upper and lower walls are permeable to allow steady and unsteady injected air to generate internal flow mimicking the flow field of the combustion gases in real rocket chamber. The frequencies of the unsteady injected flow are chosen to be very close or away from the resonance frequencies of the adapted chamber. The current study accounts for a wide range of wave numbers that reflect the complexity of real burning processes. Detailed derivation for Navier-Stokes equations at the four boundaries of the chamber is introduced in the current study. Qualitative comparison is performed with recent experimental work carried out on a two-inch hybrid rocket motor using a mixture of polyethylene and aluminum powder. The higher the percentage of aluminum powder in the mixture, the more the corrugations of the combustion surface. This trend is almost similar to the computational and analytical results of a simulated solid rocket chamber.

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