Sundaramurthy, H and Narayan, KY and Suryanarayana, GK and Lochan, Rajeev and Sasidharan Nair, KG (1986) Wind tunnel investigation of strap-on booster separation characteristics of a launch vehicle. In: 2nd National Conference on Aerodynamics, 19-20 Dec 1986, Bangalore, India.
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A description and typical results of wind tunnel tests carried out to determine the separation characteristics of the strap-on boosters of a launch vehicle after their separation from the core vehicle are presented. The test program was carried out in two phases. An extensive aerodynamic data base was generated using the grid approach in the first phase. This data base was utilized for the design of the ejection mechanism. In the second phase of the test program, the semicaptive trajectory technique was used to determine the trajectories of the separated boosters. A specially designed test rig featuring six degrees-of-freedom positioning capability for the two boosters was utilized for the tests. The wind tunnel studies showed that the separation trajectories of the boosters were safe.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Separation;Wind tunnels;Aeronautics;Aerodynamics;Launch vehicles;Ejection;Vehicles;Organizations;Positioning;13; Booster rockets;Stage seperation;Wind tunnel tests; Computational grids |
| Subjects: | AERONAUTICS > Aeronautics (General) |
| Division/Department: | National Trisonic Aerodynamic Facility, Aerodynamics, National Trisonic Aerodynamic Facility, Other, Other |
| Depositing User: | M/S ICAST NAL |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 24 May 2010 09:51 |
| URI: | http://nal-ir.nal.res.in/id/eprint/2970 |
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