Convective Heat Transfer in the Reusable Solid Rocket Motor of the Space Transportation System
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Convective Heat Transfer in the Reusable Solid Rocket Motor of the Space Transportation System
- Publication date
- 2002
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- Public Domain
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- nasa_techdocs
- Contributor
- NASA
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Public Domain
This simulation involved a two-dimensional axisymmetric model of a full motor initial grain of the Reusable Solid Rocket Motor (RSRM) of the Space Transportation System (STS). It was conducted with CFD (computational fluid dynamics) commercial code FLUENT. This analysis was performed to: a) maintain continuity with most related previous analyses, b) serve as a non-vectored baseline for any three-dimensional vectored nozzles, c) provide a relatively simple application and checkout for various CFD solution schemes, grid sensitivity studies, turbulence modeling and heat transfer, and d) calculate nozzle convective heat transfer coefficients. The accuracy of the present results and the selection of the numerical schemes and turbulence models were based on matching the rocket ballistic predictions of mass flow rate, head end pressure, vacuum thrust and specific impulse, and measured chamber pressure drop. Matching these ballistic predictions was found to be good. This study was limited to convective heat transfer and the results compared favorably with existing theory. On the other hand, qualitative comparison with backed-out data of the ratio of the convective heat transfer coefficient to the specific heat at constant pressure was made in a relative manner. This backed-out data was devised to match nozzle erosion that was a result of heat transfer (convective, radiative and conductive), chemical (transpirating), and mechanical (shear and particle impingement forces) effects combined.
- Addeddate
- 2011-05-31 10:00:06
- Document-source
- CASI
- Documentid
- 20020090843
- Identifier
- nasa_techdoc_20020090843
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t0ft9fs25
- Nasa-center
- Marshall Space Flight Center
- Ocr
- ABBYY FineReader 8.0
- Online-source
- http://wayback.archive-it.org/1792/20100130121747/http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20020090843
- Original-nasa-rights
- Unclassified; Copyright (Distribution as joint owner in the copyright) ; Unlimited; Publicly available;
- Ppi
- 300
- Updated-added-to-ntrs
- 2009-07-29
- Year
- 2002
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