Theoretical analysis of ammonium-perchlorate based composite propellants containing small size particles of boron

One of the main goals for the scientific/military rocket industry is to increase the operational burning time, thus the specific impulse. New homogeneous and heterogeneous propellants were tested and metallic fuels were added in the mixture to obtain best performance. To study heterogeneous propellant, containing large amount of fine boron and ammonium perchlorate, it is appropriate to estimate the combustion products to evaluate/obtain the values of the specific impulse, density, Mach number and mass flow of the mixture. Several composite propellant mixtures, ammonium perchlorate, nitramides (RDX Cyclotrimethylene trinitramide), were defined with or without addiction of small particles of Boron and modeled. The energetic properties of boron and progress of boron particles on the burning surface of the ammonium perchlorate based composite propellants was modeled used a numerical algorithm. This paper reports the analysis of the influence of boron in the performance parameters for ammonium perchlorate based composite propellants. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.