Combustion Tailoring Criteria for Solid Propellants.

Abstract

The objective of this research program is to develop an analytical model describing the steady-state combustion of solid propellants. The model will be developed and implemented from experimental data acquired from a dual experimental program. Tests with small samples of propellants will provide experimental data for modeling the propellant combustion process for different ingredient variations, e.g., oxidizer size, concentration, and metals. Additional tests in apparatus simulating the environment of a rocket motor will provide experimental data showing the effect of rocket motor environment upon the combustion process. During Phase 4, analytical work was directed towards modeling the gaseous reaction zones above the surface of an ammonium perchlorate oxidized propellant. Experimental work was directed towards testing a series of propellants containing four different oxidizers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0393555

Entities

People

  • Merrill W. Beckstead
  • Ronald L. Derr

Organizations

  • Lockheed Propulsion Company

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Ammonium Perchlorate
  • Burning Rate
  • Combustion
  • Composite Propellants
  • Endothermic Reactions
  • Exothermic Reactions
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Transfer
  • High Pressure
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Particle Size
  • Propellants
  • Rocket Engines
  • Solid Propellants

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation