Sundaramurthy, H and Narayan, KY and Suryanaraya, GK and Lochan, Rajeev and Sasidharan Nair, KG (1986) Wind tunnel investigation of strap-on booster separation13; characteristics of a launch vehicle. Journal of Aeronautical Society of India, 38 . pp. 215-221.
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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 approach13; 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 two13; boosters was utilized for the tests. The wind tunnel studies showed that the separation trajectories of the boosters were safe.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Separation;Wind tunnels;Aeronautics;Aerodynamics;Launch vehicles;Ejection;Vehicles;Organizations;Positioning;Booster rockets;Stage separation;Trajectory analysis;Wind tunnel tests;Computational grids;Data bases;Degrees of freedom;Ejectors |
| 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: | 16 Jan 2008 |
| Last Modified: | 24 May 2010 09:55 |
| URI: | http://nal-ir.nal.res.in/id/eprint/4308 |
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