01-14-2013, 07:05 PM
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Bona-Fide Space Hero
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: ATL
Posts: 718
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I don't think the software can correctly simulate a flight with cones or other short/fat rockets. I am limited to OpenRocket, and it cannot accurately sim dynamic stability - RockSim may have similar limitations.
The swing tests I have done seem to confirm the "Massless Cone" method of finding the in-flight stability of a squat rocket.
What I normally do is:
1: input the massless cone and find the dynamic (in flight) stability.
2: Remove the cone, and reduce the mass of the rocket to "0"
3: Make a mass item the same weight of the total rocket weight, and position it so the CG/CP relationship is the same as was with the massless cone attached.
Have fun.
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