Influence of Different Altitudes on the Solid Rocket Contrail Formation in the Near Field

Figure 8

Nondimensional mixture pressure contours and nondimensional pressure curves.

(a) Nondimensional mixture pressure contours plotted equally spaced in the range [-0.1, 0.1] at different altitudes, indicating the relative deviation between the pressure and the ambient pressure. The contours are represented from the nozzle inlet to 240De downstream of the nozzle exit. Pa is the ambient pressure

(b) Nondimensional pressure curves along the centerline