ROCKET GEOMETRY

Equipo de aeroestructuras
This work is based on experimental data provided by NACA/NASA. This
work provides useful data for:

• CAD modelling, standarized dimensions are function of the fuselage

dimensions (large and diameter)
• Manufacture feasibility
• To build the prototype
• Structural and aerodynamic simulations
FINS
TESTED FIN MODELS
PROPOSED FIN AND PROPORTIONS

Dimensions on images have only ilustrative purpose in this report

Cr = Cp = 0.1042(Longitud fuselaje)
Punto Inicial ala = 0.8333(Longitud del fuselaje)
Altura = 0.0145(Longitud del fuselaje)
SWEPT ANGLE OPTION

Cr = 1.84Cp = 0.1042(Longitud fuselaje)

Altura = 0.0172(Longitud del fuselaje)
Mismo punto inicial de ala
ALTERNATIVE FINS PROPOSED
*Proposed in the case that manufacture feasibility of the fins with a NACA airfoil were not posible or diffucult

Cr = Cp = 0.1042(Longitud fuselaje)
Espesor = 4.17E-3(Longitud del fuselaje)
Ampliación = 0.0333(Longitud del fuselaje)

*Puede ser flechada

NOSE
PROPOSED NOSE - L-V HAACK
Longitud = 3(Diámetro del fuselaje)

*La proporción dada es de acuerdo

a los modelos presentados en los reportes
MODEL TEST VALIDATION
PURPOSE
• Validation of simulation results over experimental data. Experimental
data given in the reports were held over two conditions:

a) Wind tunnel test

b) Free-flight test

• Acomplish validation process by comparing Drag data and Reynolds

Number.
MODEL
Cd resoults
DESIRED CALCULATIONS
PURPOSE
• Determine stability ( dCm/dalpha must be a negative value)
• Determine other usefull characteristics varing angle of atack
EXAMPLE
RESOURCES
• 177 MODELOS DE COHETE PUESTOS A PRUEBA EN TUNELES DE
VIENTO Y EN VUELO LIBRE Y OTRAS GEOMETRÍAS
Collection of Zero-Lift Drag Data on Bodies of Revoultion

• MODELOS DE DIFERENTES TIPOS DE OJIVAS

Investigations of the Drag of Various Axially Symetric Nose
Shapes of Finenness Ratio 3 for Mach Numbers from 1.24 to 7.4

Effects of Nose-Cone Angle on the Transinic Aerodynamic

Characteristics of a Blunt Cone-Cylinder Body Having a
Cylindrical, Flared, or Blunted-Finned Body