Aerospace Practicum Lab Homework # 2

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Mo Mohamed
Aerospace Practicum 2012
02/03/2012
Charles Cholick

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% Title
disp(' Solved set of equations for T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, using MATLAB:')
% Matrice
A=[7.11,-1.23,0,0,0;-1.23,1.99,-0.76,0,0;0,-0.76,0.815,-0.091,0;0,0,0.091,2.31,-2.22;0,0,0,-2.22,3.69];
B=[117.6;0;0;0;102.9];
% Equation
x=A\B
T1=x(1)
T2=x(2)
T3=x(3)
T4=x(4)
T5=x(5)

Solved set of equations for T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, with MATLAB:
T1 = 20.7454
T2 = 24.3089
T3 =30.0761
T4 =66.3433
T5 =67.8000

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disp(' Rocket Performance Prediction :')

Rocket Performance Prediction

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% define gravity coefficient
g = 9.8;
% Creates Matrice
[I_sp, M_i] = meshgrid(280:10:400, 9000:100:15000);
% Rocket Performance Prediction Equation
V_b = g.*I_sp.* log(M_i./1000);
% generates graph
surf(M_i, I_sp, V_b)
% Labeling
xlabel('Mass-Ratio')
ylabel('Isp')
zlabel('Burn-out Velocity')
title('Burn-out Velocity vs. Isp & Mass Ratio')
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Burn-out Velocity vs. Isp & Mass Ratio
10500

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9500

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Burn-out Velocity

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9000
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7000
380
1.5
360

1.4
340

1.3

6500

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0.9

Isp

Mass Ratio

Figure 1:

The figure shows how the continually increasing ISP and Mass ration of the rockets
velocity.