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Introduction

To design a rocket motor, it is important to know the caracteristics of the propellant and the properties of the combustion gases. It is possible to compute the properties of the combustion product if we know the caracteristic of the propellant.

The need of a computer to solve this problems is obvious. There is already some software available but are not enough flexible and very difficult to modify. For this reason a new software written in standard ANSI C and distribute under the GPL is in developpment. It is called `cpropep'.

In the different parts of this document, all the equations need to solve equilibrium will be explain. The different functions of cpropep will also be explain.



Antoine Lefebvre 2000-03-26