ANALYTICAL STUDIES OF THE INTERIOR BALLISTICS OF SPINNING ROCKET MOTORS - A LITERATURE SURVEY

Abstract

This survey reviews the analytical literature pertinent to contained rotating flows. A related survey of the experimental literature is reported in TM 67-2. The main emphasis in this report is placed upon possible applications to the study of the fluid mechanics in rotating rocket motors. Since this area is only now receiving analytical attention it was necessary to draw heavily upon the classical analytical studies of vortex tubes and swirling flows in cylinders and converging nozzles. A great deal of the classical fluid mechanics in this area is incompressible in nature, therefore, must be considered qualitative in relation to actual rocket motors. Conditions existing in the nozzle and chamber are reviewed. In addition other topics such as, end wall interactions and boundary layers are reported upon. The analytical models for the determination of the effects of acceleration on the burning rate of solid propellants which have been reported in two recent papers are reviewed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0814933

Entities

People

  • B. W. Farquhar
  • D. J. Norton
  • Jason Hoffman

Organizations

  • Purdue University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Burning Rate
  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Froude Number
  • Heat Transfer
  • Hilsch Tubes
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Incompressible Flow
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Rocket Engines
  • Secondary Flow
  • Standing Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • ballistics.