Fuel Slosh Energy Dissipation on a Spinning Body

Abstract

The purpose of the report is to serve as an interim documentation of the fuel slosh investigation program to date. Additional testing at inertia ratios near 0.6 and 1.1 is presently scheduled for early 1972. This testing together with the testing already completed, is intended to establish an empirical energy dissipation equation that will permit scaling test and flight data for arbitrary roll-to-pitch ratios. Such scaling is critical for determining spacecraft stability margins for vehicle configurations inertially dissimilar to the Intelsat IV and HS-318 designs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0773758

Entities

People

  • J. T. Neer
  • Jeremiah O. Salvatore

Organizations

  • Hughes Aircraft Company

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Angular Momentum
  • Boundary Layer
  • Containers
  • Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fuel Tanks
  • Geometry
  • Measurement
  • Moment Of Inertia
  • Payload
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Propellant Tanks
  • Propellants
  • Reynolds Number
  • Spacecraft
  • Test Methods
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers