Internal ballistics and missile launch environment for the Vertical Launching System
Abstract
The internal flows of hot rocket exhaust have been of particular concern during the design and development of the Navy Vertical Launching System (VLS). The design has been especially complicated for the Navy Standard missile due to the tremendous temperatures, quantity of exhaust, and rapid rise of pressure in the rocket motor. The qualitative features and mathematical analysis of the internal flow of rocket exhaust through the VLS are described. Calculations of a strong pressure wave that travels upward along the outer surface of the missile a few milliseconds after motor ignition are described and wave diagrams are presented.
- Publication:
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Conference
- Pub Date:
- June 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982aiaa.confQ....Y
- Keywords:
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- Ballistic Missiles;
- Elastic Waves;
- Exhaust Flow Simulation;
- Missile Launchers;
- Rocket Exhaust;
- Cans;
- Computational Fluid Dynamics;
- Computer Techniques;
- Ignition;
- Missile Design;
- Pressure Distribution;
- Research And Development;
- Temperature Gradients;
- Vertical Orientation;
- Wave Reflection;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles