Конспект/сведения

Design & Analysis of a 500 LBF Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Methane Rocket Engine

Vargas Franco, Daniel.   The University of Texas at El Paso ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  2017. 10743689.

Конспект (резюме)

The rapid growth in demand for spacecraft technologies has spawned a need for a variety of new and innovative research. The utilization of liquid oxygen (LOX) and liquid methane (LCH4) in rocket engines have played an important role in space exploration efforts to promote missions to Mars with in-situ resource utilization for propellant production. This will allow the production of fuel needed to come back to Earth making the overall mission more cost effective by enabling larger usable mass.

The Center for Space Exploration and Technology Research has focused its efforts to developing Liquid Oxygen (LOX) and Liquid Methane (LCH4) propulsion technologies. The goal is to design, build, and test a 500 lbf throattleable (4:1) liquid oxygen and liquid methane rocket engine. Many iterations of this engine were developed taking into consideration many variables that are present in the design of rocket engines such as combustion instabilities, oscillatory combustion, stress, pressure, and fatigue. This thesis describes the design process, analysis, and decision making behind the design changes of this engine and plans for future development. It will be designed, built, and tested by cSETR. The end goal of CROME is to be the main propulsion engine for Daedalus suborbital flight vehicle and fire in space to obtain performance data of this propellant combination.

Индексация (данные)


Тема
Mechanical engineering
Классификация
0548: Mechanical engineering
Идентификатор / ключевое слово
Applied sciences
Название
Design & Analysis of a 500 LBF Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Methane Rocket Engine
Автор
Vargas Franco, Daniel
Число страниц
75
Дата получения степени
2017
Код учебного учреждения
0459
Источник
MAI 57/04M(E), Masters Abstracts International
Место публикации
Ann Arbor
Страна публикации
United States
ISBN
978-0-355-60468-9
Научный руководитель
Choudhuri, Ahsan; Chessa, Jack
Член комитета
Chessa, Jack; Choudhuri, Ahsan; Contreras, Luis R.
Университет/учреждение
The University of Texas at El Paso
Подразделение
Engineering
Местонахождение университета
United States -- Texas
Степень
M.S.
Тип источника
Диссертация или дипломная работа
Язык
Английский
Тип документа
Dissertation/Thesis
Номер диссертации или дипломной работы
10743689
ИД документа ProQuest
2014469298
Авторское право
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/unauthdocview/2014469298