User documentation
-Unfortunately no user's guide currently exists for OpenRocket. - Some documentation is available in the - OpenRocket - wiki pages, including a stub - User's - guide and a section of - frequently - asked questions.
-If you would like to help, please extend the documentation!
-Technical documentation
-OpenRocket was originally written as the Master's thesis of - Sampo Niskanen at Helsinki University of Technology. The thesis - currently functions as the technical documentation, and will be - updated in the future to account for further enhancements. - The thesis is licensed under a - Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License.
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Development of an Open Source model - rocket simulation software (PDF, 1.3MB)
-Table of contents:
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- 1. Introduction -
- 2. Basics of model rocket flight -
- 3. Aerodynamic properties of model rockets -
- 4. Flight simulation -
- 5. The OpenRocket simulation software -
- 6. Comparison with experimental data -
- 7. Conclusion -
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- A. Nose cone and transition geometries -
- B. Transonic wave drag of nose cones -
- C. Streamer drag coefficient estimation -
Resources
-A list of useful technical rocketry resources is available in - the "Resources" - wiki page, including links to Barrowman's original report and - thesis, extensions for the Barrowman method, experimental rocket - data etc.
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