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Wonjae Yoon, Vikas Khandu Bhosale and Hosung Yoon
The development of propulsion systems based on green propellants, as an alternative to hydrazines, has been gaining interest within the space community. The study of Ammonium Dinitramide (ADN)-based liquid monopropellant, which is low-toxic and can deliv...
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Tianfang Wei, Guobiao Cai, Hui Tian, Yuanjun Zhang, Chengen Li and Xiangyu Meng
This study investigated reconstruction techniques for building the instantaneous fuel regression rate of the hybrid rocket motor (HRM). Specifically, an experiment in a laboratory 500 N-class hybrid rocket motor with single-port wagon wheel fuel grain, o...
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Daniele Cardillo, Francesco Battista, Giuseppe Gallo, Stefano Mungiguerra and Raffaele Savino
Firing test campaigns were carried out on a 200 N thrust-class hybrid rocket engine, using gaseous oxygen as an oxidizer and a paraffin-wax-based fuel. Different fuel grain lengths were adopted to extend the fuel characterization under different operatin...
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Giovanni Fasulo, Luigi Federico, Adolfo Sollazzo, Luciano De Vivo and Roberto Citarella
A rocket?s turbulent jet radiates intense acoustic waves, which are an acoustic load for structural components like payload, launch structure, and rocket avionics, and impact communities near the launch site. Therefore, a careful characterization of the ...
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Daniele Ricci, Francesco Battista, Manrico Fragiacomo and Ainslie Duncan French
The cooling jackets of liquid rocket engines are composed of narrow passages surrounding the thrust chambers and ensure the reliable operation of the engine. Critical conditions may also be encountered, since the cooling jackets of cryogenic engines, suc...
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Guobiao Cai, Lihui Liu, Bijiao He, Guilong Ling, Huiyan Weng and Weizong Wang
Chemical and electrical thrusters are generally utilized to control the attitude and orbit of spacecraft in aerospace. When they are firing, the exhaust expands into the vacuum environment, known as the vacuum plume. The plume flow can collide with space...
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Hui Tian, Xianzhu Jiang, Yudong Lu, Yu Liang, Hao Zhu and Guobiao Cai
A novel fuel grain configuration comprising two star-segmented grains is proposed. The effect of the rotation, mid-chamber length, and segmented position on the fuel regression rate and the combustion efficiency in hybrid rocket motors with star-segmente...
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Hui Tian, Xiangyu Meng, Hao Zhu, Chengen Li, Lingfei He and Guobiao Cai
The addition of aluminum (Al) to the fuel is an effective way to increase the regression rate of hybrid rocket motors (HRMs). Due to its high regression rate, the impact of the regression of combustion surface on the performance of HRMs cannot be ignored...
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Sergey M. Frolov, Konstantin A. Avdeev, Viktor S. Aksenov, Fedor S. Frolov, Ilias A. Sadykov and Igor O. Shamshin
A new type of marine transportation engine, the pulsed detonation hydroramjet (PDH), which was first designed, manufactured, and tested by the present authors, has been further investigated in terms of the potential improvement of its propulsive performa...
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Heejang Moon, Seongjoo Han, Youngjun You and Minchan Kwon
This paper presents an attempt to use the hybrid rocket for marine applications with a 500 N class hybrid motor. A 5-port high density polyethylene (HDPE) fuel grain was used as a test-bed for the preliminary assessment of the underwater boosting device....
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