Our simulations team is a crucial part of the design processes of our rockets. We conduct an analysis of design ideas from other sub-teams with flight trajectory simulation and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and optimise given designs.
Flight trajectory models are formed both with existing software, such as OpenRocket and ASTOS, as well as in-house MATLAB scripts. Avionics data from test flights is used to source parameters for these scripts, such as the drag coefficient. We research advance methods and complicated dynamical systems for supersonic flight.