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<h1>Documentation for OpenRocket</h1>
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<h2>User documentation</h2>
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<p>No user's guide currently exists for OpenRocket. There is a
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<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>
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<p>If you would like to help, please extend it!</p>
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<h2>Technical documentation</h2>
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<p>OpenRocket was originally written as the Master's thesis of
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Sampo Niskanen at Helsinki University of Technology. The thesis
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currently functions as the technical documentation, and will be
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updated in the future to account for further enhancements.
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<p><a href="thesis.pdf">Development of an Open Source model
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rocket simulation software</a> (PDF, 1.3MB)</p>
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<p class="quote"><strong>Table of contents:</strong></p>
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<ol class="toc">
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<li>1. Introduction</li>
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<li>2. Basics of model rocket flight</li>
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<li>3. Aerodynamic properties of model rockets</li>
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<li>4. Flight simulation</li>
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<li>5. The OpenRocket simulation software</li>
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<li>6. Comparison with experimental data</li>
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<li>7. Conclusion</li>
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<li>A. Nose cone and transition geometries</li>
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<li>B. Transonic wave drag of nose cones</li>
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<li>C. Streamer drag coefficient estimation</li>
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</ol>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
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<p>Below are resources that have been found useful in the analysis
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of model rockets. Many useful scientific aerodynamic articles and
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documents are available at the invaluable
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<a href="http://ntrs.nasa.gov/">NASA Technical Resources Server
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(NTRS)</a>.</p>
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<dt><em>
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<a href="http://www.apogeerockets.com/Education/downloads/barrowman_report.pdf">The Theoretical Prediction of the Center of
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Pressure</a></em>, James and Judith Barrowman, 1966.</dt>
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<dd>The original NARAM R&D report explaining how to
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calculate the CP position of a rocket.</dd>
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<dt><em>
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<a href="http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?Ntk=all&Ntx=mode+matchall&Ntt=Barrowman+Practical+Calculation+of+the+Aerodynamic+Characteristics+of+Slender+Finned+Vehicles">The Practical Calculation of the Aerodynamic
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Characteristics of Slender Finned Vehicles</a></em>, James
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Barrowman, 1967.</dt>
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<dd>The more in-depth and technical thesis, where Barrowman
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presents methods for calculating the CP position of a rocket at
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both subsonic and supersonic velocities and its other
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aerodynamic properties. Available on
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<a href="http://ntrs.nasa.gov/">NTRS</a>.</dd>
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<dt><em>
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<a href="http://projetosulfos.if.sc.usp.br/artigos/sentinel39-galejs.pdf">Wind instability—What Barrowman left out</a></em>,
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Robert Galejs.</dt>
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<dd>An extension to the Barrowman method to account for body
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lift at large angles of attack.</dd>
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<dt><em>Topics in Advanced Model Rocketry</em>, Mandell,
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Caporaso, Bengen, MIT Press, 1973.</dt>
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<dd>An excellent theoretical study on the flight of model
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rockets. Available as a reprint edition.</dd>
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<dt><em>Fluid-dynamic drag</em>, Sighard Hoerner,
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published by the author, 1965.</dt>
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<dd>An excellent resource for all kinds of experimental data
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regarding drag. Available as a reprint edition.</dd>
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<dt><em>Tactical missile design</em>, 2nd edition, Eugene
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L. Fleeman, AIAA, 2006.</dt>
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<dd>Useful approximation methods for estimating the aerodynamic
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properties of rockets.</dd>
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<dt><em><a href="http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~mason/Mason_f/CAtxtTop.html">Applied
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Computational Aerodynamics</a></em>, William Mason.</dt>
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<dd>An online textbook on computational aerodynamics.</dd>
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<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>,
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MIL-HDBK-762, US Army Missile Command, 1990.</dt>
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<dd>Military handbook on the design of rockets, a good resource
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for aerodynamic estimation methods.</dd>
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<dt><em>
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<a href="http://www.thrustcurve.org/">ThrustCurve.org</a></em>,
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John Coker.</dt>
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<dd>An excellent resource for model rocket motor thrust curves.</dd>
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<dt><em>
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<a href="http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?Ntk=all&Ntx=mode+matchall&Ntt=NASA-TN-D-4013">Static stability investigation of a single-stage
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sounding rocket at Mach numbers from 0.60 to 1.20</a></em>, James
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Ferris, NASA-TN-D-4013, 1967.</dt>
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<dt><em>
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<a href="http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?Ntk=all&Ntx=mode+matchall&Ntt=NASA-TN-D-4014">Static stability investigation of a sounding-rocket
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vehicle at Mach numbers from 1.50 to 4.63</a></em>, Donald Babb and
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Dennis Fuller, NASA-TN-D-4014, 1967.</dt>
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<dd>Experimental data of a wind tunnel investigation of a
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sounding rocket at subsonic, transonic and supersonic
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velocities. Available on
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<a href="http://ntrs.nasa.gov/">NTRS</a>.</dd>
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