Numerical Simulation of a Pintle Variable Thrust Rocket Engine

Numerical Simulation of Cryogenic Injection in Rocket Engine Combustion Chambers

Numerical Simulation of Cryogenic Injection in Rocket Engine Combustion Chambers

The numerical simulation of cryogenic combustion is crucial for a better understanding of the complex physics involved in reactive flows of rocket engines and to help to reduce the development cost of these engines. The focus of this study is set on the oxidizer injection and its dispersion through jet dense core destabilization and atomization or supercritical mixing. Specific models have been...

Adaptive Pressure Control for Use in Variable-Thrust Rocket Development

Umit Poyraz Roketsan INC., Ankara, Turkey Abstract The precise control of gas generator pressure is important to obtain variable thrust in ducted rockets. A delay resistant closed loop reference model adaptive control is proposed in this paper to address this problem. The proposed controller combines delay compensation and adaptation with improved transient response. The controller is successfu...

Numerical Simulation of Ionized Rocket Plumes

Numerical simulation of combustion stability of liquid rocket engine based on chemistry dynamics

Combustion instability of O2/kerosene, O2/kerosene/hydrogen, and O2/kerosene/hydrogen spray flame is numerically studied. The numerical results of combustion self-oscillation are consistent with the historical experiments. Hydrogen is helpful to stabilizing oxygen/hydrocarbon combustion. High gas injecting velocity of the coaxial injector would increase the combustion stability. Contrary to the...