Study on thrust performance of small water rocket launch

Abstract

For water rocket test of low cost, quick assembly and simple, based on the single water rocket, using Bernoulli equation, the ideal gas adiabatic model and mass conservation theorem, this paper derived both the calculation method of thrust rocket the bottle under the different initial water volume ratio of water pressure, and the rule about how the water rocket thrust and pressure performance change. It is found that the pressure, the jet velocity of the water relative to the water rocket body and thrust of water rocket will decrease with the decrease of water amount under different initial charging pressure and different initial water amount. If the initial pressure is higher, the water rocket will gain more energy and launch faster; However, it doesn’t mean that the more initial water storage ratio is, the better. The maximum velocity obtained by water rocket under the same initial pressure increases first and then decreases with the initial water storage ratio and the optimal initial water storage ratio increases with the increase of initial pressure. According to data calculation, the numerical value increases with the increase of initial pressure. The optimal performance of water rocket can be obtained by taking the maximum pressure and the corresponding optimal initial injection water when the water rocket body is allowed.