Rocket Flight-Simulator

Methodology

The flight simulator is being developed using Python. The software uses the thrust curve data, Rocket data to run a simulation loop, which calculates all the variables at each time step, thus simulating the entire Flight.

Thrust curve of Estes F-15 rocket motor used to develop and test the simulator

Previous Simulator result on a sample rocket

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As can be seen, the acceleration gradually increases from -9.8 to 0 and then gradually increases from there. The graph looks very similar to the Open Rocket graph. Our next step is integrating Parabolic motion into the simulator.

Current Simulator result on a sample rocket

Converted the 1D model into a 2D model. The trajectory of the rocket considered is shown below :

The final output is shown below for launch angle = 10 degrees from the y axis:

Current OpenRocket Simulation result on a sample rocket