A Comparative Research of Thrust Simulation and Practice for the Small Solid Rocket Motor

Abstract

In practice, it is found that the simulation method applicable to the conventional size rocket motor cannot be directly applied to the design of the small rocket motor. Due to the change of size, the simulated thrust results differ greatly from the actual thrust results. In this paper, the tube grain and star grain are taken as examples to compare the simulated results with the actual experimental results. First, we determine a group of independent variables that can well reflect the changes of the main variables as a pretreatment and then use the zero dimensional interior ballistic algorithm for simulation. Finally, we design and conduct control experiments to draw a conclusion. The theoretical thrust was obtained by simulation and calculation, and the actual thrust was obtained by a lot of experiments. It was found that there were large offsets between the two types of grains, and the specific offsets corresponding to the two types of grains were obtained. The results show that there is a great difference between the simulated result and the actual result, which has a certain guiding significance for the design and research of small solid rocket motor.