Three Dimensional Grain Design Optimizationof Solid Rocket Motors

2015-06-19
Yücel, Osman
Sevda, Açık
Atılgan, Toker
Dursunkaya, Zafer
Aksel, Mehmet Haluk
This study investigates the ballistic design optimization of three-dimensional grains of solid rocket motors (SRMs). The geometric modeling and burnback analysis of grains are performed analytically by using basic geometries like cylinder, cone, prism, sphere, ellipsoid, and torus. For the internal ballistic analysis, a quasi-steady zero-dimensional flow solver is used. Three different optimization methods are considered: real-coded genetic algorithm (GA), binary genetic algorithm and complex method. The optimization methods are applied to the problems of finding the parameters of grain geometry satisfying an objective thrust versus time profile and maximizing the parameter of total impulse satisfying the constraints of chamber pressure and propellant mass.
2015 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST),16-19 June 2015

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Citation Formats
O. Yücel, A. Sevda, T. Atılgan, Z. Dursunkaya, and M. H. Aksel, “Three Dimensional Grain Design Optimizationof Solid Rocket Motors,” presented at the 2015 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST),16-19 June 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/81199.