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Junjie Pan, Xin Lin, Zezhong Wang, Ruoyan Wang, Kun Wu, Jinhu Liang and Xilong Yu
This study investigated combustion characteristics of composite fuel grains designed based on a modular fuel unit strategy. The modular fuel unit comprised a periodical helical structure with nine acrylonitrile?butadiene?styrene helical blades. A paraffi...
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Shuyuan Liu, Yu Zhang, Limin Wang, Zhengchun Chen and Songqi Hu
The effect of mixing on coupled heat release and transfer performance of a novel segregated solid motor is numerically evaluated with a transient two-dimensional combustion model. The results show that vortex structures are formed and evolved in the comb...
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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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Tsuyoshi Oishi, Mitsuru Tamari and Takashi Sakurai
Hybrid rockets are safe and inexpensive; however, boundary-layer combustion poses a problem in achieving a fuel regression rate equivalent to that of solid propellants. The fundamental combustion conditions, such as the fuel regression rate of LT421, a p...
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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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Ruoyan Wang, Xin Lin, Zezhong Wang, Kun Wu, Zelin Zhang, Jiaxiao Luo, Fei Li and Xilong Yu
The combustion characteristics of a swirl-radial-injection composite fuel grain were experimentally and numerically investigated. This composite grain permits swirl-radial oxidizer injection based on three hollow helical blades, each having a constant ho...
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Calvin Nguyen and James C. Thomas
Hybrid rocket engine (HRE) performance is dependent on fuel/oxidizer selection and fuel grain geometry. A literature review was performed to identify key trends and findings related to the application of the additive manufacturing (AM) of fuel systems fo...
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Hongsheng Yu, Xiaodong Yu, Hongwei Gao, Luigi T. DeLuca, Wei Zhang and Ruiqi Shen
The slow regression rate induced by the high pyrolysis difficulty has limited the application and development of hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB)-based fuels in hybrid rocket propulsion. Nickel oxide (NiO) shows the possibility of increasing the ...
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Eskinder Gidey, Oagile Dikinya, Reuben Sebego, Eagilwe Segosebe, Amanuel Zenebe, Said Mussa, Paidamwoyo Mhangara and Emiru Birhane
Land use and land cover change (LULCC) is the result of both natural and socio-economic determinants. The aim of this study was to model the determinant factors of land cover changes in Raya Valley, Southern Tigray, Ethiopia. Multistage sampling was used...
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You-Chen Shih, Yu-An Tzeng, Chih-Wen Cheng and Chien-Hua Huang
The maritime industry faces the critical challenge of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, as mandated by the International Maritime Organization. This study introduces a novel speed optimization model, designed specifically for bulk carr...
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