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From Fireworks to Rocket Fuel: What to Understand from Solid Propellants

Pranav .

Abstract


Solid propellants are high-energy materials that are used to propel and thrust missile systems and rockets. Despite the fact that they have a long history dating back to the employment of black powder over two millennia, performance gains expectations and the requirement for" insensitive weapons" that are resilient to unintentional ignition have motivated much study and development in the last half-century subjecting to the formation of SRMs engines (main combustion unit for rocket launches). Further In this review we learn about them, their history, and their general composition of various solid propellants with an aim to understand basic knowledge about them as well as their most used and common examples, it also gives a brief on their regulators and stabilizer and in account of their most common application usage as SMR fuel we give a little summary on inner aerodynamics of Solid motor rockets.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijan.v9i1.998

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