PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL BINDER FOR COMPOSITE SOLID ROCKET PROPELLANT

HTPB-Polyurethane: A Versatile Fuel Binder for Composite Solid Propellant

Acoustic-Mean Flow Interaction in Solid Propellant Rocket Motors

There are several sources for pressure oscillations in solid propellant rocket motors. Oscillatory flow field is one of them. Free shear layers in motor flow field cause vortex shedding. End edges of propellant grains and baffle edge in two-segmented motors are samples of such zones. These vortices move from their forming points and strike the field walls. The kinetic energy of vortices change ...

Acoustic-Mean Flow Interaction in Solid Propellant Rocket Motors

There are several sources for pressure oscillations in solid propellant rocket motors. Oscillatory flow field is one of them. Free shear layers in motor flow field cause vortex shedding. End edges of propellant grains and baffle edge in two-segmented motors are samples of such zones. These vortices move from their forming points and strike the field walls. The kinetic energy of vortices change ...

High Altitude Plume Simulations for a Solid Propellant Rocket

A simulation scheme is proposed for flowfield and radiation analysis of solid rocket exhaust plumes at high altitude. Several recently developed numerical procedures are used to determine properties of the gas and condensed phase Al2O3 particles, and spectrally resolved plume radiation calculations are performed using a Monte Carlo ray trace model. Simulations are run for a representative plume...

A critical review of solid rocket propellant transient flame models

A critical review is offered of the commonly implemented flame models for computing transient burning rates and intrinsic combustion stability of solid rocket propellants. After illustrating merits and limitations of each, a new flame model is described, by means of a unified mathematical formalism, incorporatin all of the and closer agreement with experimental information is enforced. #he gene...