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<h1>Documentation for OpenRocket</h1>
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<h2>User documentation</h2>
<p>No user's guide currently exists for OpenRocket. There is a
<a href="http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/openrocket/index.php?title=User%27s_Guide">page on the wiki</a> for creating a User's guide.</p>
<p>If you would like to help, please extend it!</p>
<h2>Technical documentation</h2>
<p>Coming within the next few weeks.</p>
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<p class="quote"><strong>Table of contents:</strong></p>
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<li>1. Introduction</li>
<li>2. Basics of model rocket flight</li>
<li>3. Aerodynamic properties of model rockets</li>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
<p>Below are resources that have been found useful in the analysis
of model rockets. Many useful scientific aerodynamic articles and
documents are available at the invaluable
<a href="http://ntrs.nasa.gov/">NASA Technical Resources Server
(NTRS)</a>.</p>
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<dt><em>
<a href="http://www.apogeerockets.com/Education/downloads/barrowman_report.pdf">The Theoretical Prediction of the Center of
Pressure</a></em>, James and Judith Barrowman, 1966.</dt>
<dd>The original NARAM R&amp;D report explaining how to
calculate the CP position of a rocket.</dd>
<dt><em>
<a href="http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?Ntk=all&amp;Ntx=mode+matchall&amp;Ntt=Barrowman+Practical+Calculation+of+the+Aerodynamic+Characteristics+of+Slender+Finned+Vehicles">The Practical Calculation of the Aerodynamic
Characteristics of Slender Finned Vehicles</a></em>, James
Barrowman, 1967.</dt>
<dd>The more in-depth and technical thesis, where Barrowman
presents methods for calculating the CP position of a rocket at
both subsonic and supersonic velocities and its other
aerodynamic properties. Available on
<a href="http://ntrs.nasa.gov/">NTRS</a>.</dd>
<dt><em>
<a href="http://projetosulfos.if.sc.usp.br/artigos/sentinel39-galejs.pdf">Wind instability&mdash;What Barrowman left out</a></em>,
Robert Galejs.</dt>
<dd>An extension to the Barrowman method to account for body
lift at large angles of attack.</dd>
<dt><em>Topics in Advanced Model Rocketry</em>, Mandell,
Caporaso, Bengen, MIT Press, 1973.</dt>
<dd>An excellent theoretical study on the flight of model
rockets. Available as a reprint edition.</dd>
<dt><em>Fluid-dynamic drag</em>, Sighard Hoerner,
published by the author, 1965.</dt>
<dd>An excellent resource for all kinds of experimental data
regarding drag. Available as a reprint edition.</dd>
<dt><em>Tactical missile design</em>, 2nd edition, Eugene
L. Fleeman, AIAA, 2006.</dt>
<dd>Useful approximation methods for estimating the aerodynamic
properties of rockets.</dd>
<dt><em><a href="http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~mason/Mason_f/CAtxtTop.html">Applied
Computational Aerodynamics</a></em>, William Mason.</dt>
<dd>An online textbook on computational aerodynamics.</dd>
<dt><em><a href="http://www.combatindex.com/mil_docs/pdf/hdbk/0700/MIL-HDBK-762.pdf">Design of aerodynamically stabilized free rockets</a></em>,
MIL-HDBK-762, US Army Missile Command, 1990.</dt>
<dd>Military handbook on the design of rockets, a good resource
for aerodynamic estimation methods.</dd>
<dt><em>
<a href="http://www.thrustcurve.org/">ThrustCurve.org</a></em>,
John Coker.</dt>
<dd>An excellent resource for model rocket motor thrust curves.</dd>
<dt><em>
<a href="http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?Ntk=all&amp;Ntx=mode+matchall&amp;Ntt=NASA-TN-D-4013">Static stability investigation of a single-stage
sounding rocket at Mach numbers from 0.60 to 1.20</a></em>, James
Ferris, NASA-TN-D-4013, 1967.</dt>
<dt><em>
<a href="http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?Ntk=all&amp;Ntx=mode+matchall&amp;Ntt=NASA-TN-D-4014">Static stability investigation of a sounding-rocket
vehicle at Mach numbers from 1.50 to 4.63</a></em>, Donald Babb and
Dennis Fuller, NASA-TN-D-4014, 1967.</dt>
<dd>Experimental data of a wind tunnel investigation of a
sounding rocket at subsonic, transonic and supersonic
velocities. Available on
<a href="http://ntrs.nasa.gov/">NTRS</a>.</dd>
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