Book Description

This report presents the results of experimental and numerical investigations of the flow field in the head-end star grain slots of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor. This work provided the basis for the development of an improved solid rocket motor ignition transient code which is also described in this report. The correlation between the experimental and numerical results is excellent and provides a firm basis for the development of a fully three-dimensional solid rocket motor ignition transient computer code. Foster, Winfred A., Jr. and Jenkins, Rhonald M. and Ciucci, Alessandro and Johnson, Shelby D. COMBUSTIBLE FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMS; SOLID PROPELLANT IGNITION; SPACE SHUTTLE BOOSTERS; FLOW DISTRIBUTION; IGNITERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SLOTS; SOLID PROPELLANT ROCKET ENGINES...