Hybrid combustion technology has recently been employed in the sounding rocket developments to support the science experiments of academic applications and the establishment of a viable flight test platform for space components development. Due to its safety nature in material handling and combustion processes, hybrid rockets are suitable for university and research institute environments for a...

dormancy of eastern dodder and african rocket seeds makes the controlof them very difficult in orchards and farms. in order to study the effective factors in dormancy breaking of these two weeds species, a factorialexperiment based on crd with three replications was conducted at the research laboratory of birjand faculty of agriculture in 2008 and 2009. treatments were: control, soaking in sulf...

I N T H E course of its flight, the occupants of a passenger-carrying rocket are subjected to accelerations differing substantially from that normally experienced. T, he use of a human centri.fuge capable of high peak acceleration and rate of change of acceleration allows us to duplicate sufficiently closely the acceleration curves of a rocket and to determine their effect on human beings in ad...

This paper discusses a set of experiences I had in developing ROCKET, an early application generator in the area of rocket flight mechanics at the Rand Corporation. It begins by describing a precursor system I worked on at General Dynamics. It also covers some experiences with the interactive Graphic ROCKET followon, and POGO, an early GUI builder. It concludes by relating these to the recent M...

an internal ballistics model has been developed for performance prediction of a solid propellant rocket motor. inthis model a 1-d unsteady euler equation with source terms is considered. the flow is assumed as a non-reacting mixture of perfect gases with space and time varying thermo physical properties. the governing equations in the combustion chamber are solved numerically by using the stege...

The rocket is the only vehicle that launches the spacecraft in the space. The orientation of the spacecraft in precise position is so crucial. But, the motion of the rocket can be influenced by internal and external disturbances. Furthermore, the rocket is a multi-input and multi-output nonlinear system whose dynamics are unstable and poorly understood. Hence, attitude control of the rocket is ...

concern regarding the ef%ciency, stability and safety margins of hi-propellant combustion in rocket engines has prompted the investigation of nlany specific aspects of spray evaporation, ignition and combustion previoudy not studied. Thus, early s!,ucties of combustion in liquid rocket engines were based upon the results of the classsid single-component, isolated drop combustion at atmospheric ...

This article reviews and summarizes recent work on flow-structural interaction in solid motors. This interaction is important because it can lead to rocket motor failure. In the first part of the document, an idealized model of the failure mechanism is developed to illustrate in simple terms how such an event can occur. In the second part of this article recently published numerical modeling wo...