Accession Number:

ADA278629

Title:

An Efficient, Intelligent Solution for Viscous Flows Inside Solid Rocket Motors

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept. Jan 1990-Jan 1991

Corporate Author:

AEROSPACE CORP EL SEGUNDO CA

Personal Author(s):

• Chang, I-Shih

Report Date:

1993-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

34.0

Abstract:

An efficient, intelligent method has been developed for the solution of axisymmetric, compressible viscous flows inside solid rocket motors. The method applies an adaptive, unstructured, finite-element mesh generation technique and a cell-centered, second-order, flux correction transport scheme for the solution of Navier-Stokes equations. With known, initial motor interior configuration, the method developed in this study allows the computational boundaries to be determined intelligently, the finite-element meshes and remeshes to be generated efficiently, and the corresponding compressible viscous flow fields to be produced expeditiously. Very good agreement between analysis results and test data is obtained for flow inside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory nozzle. Application of the method to analyze flows inside the Titan IV solid rocket motor upgrade and the Star-48 motor with very complicated chamber and nozzle geometry is illustrated.

Descriptors:

• *VISCOUS FLOW
• *SOLID ROCKET PROPELLANTS
• TEST AND EVALUATION
• FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
• MESH
• BOUNDARIES
• FLOW FIELDS
• CONFIGURATIONS
• TRANSPORT
• MOTORS
• CORRECTIONS
• STARS
• JET PROPULSION
• CHAMBERS
• ROCKET ENGINES
• AXISYMMETRIC
• NOZZLES
• GEOMETRY
• LABORATORIES
• AGREEMENTS
• EQUATIONS
• NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS

Subject Categories:

• Solid Rocket Propellants

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE