초록/세부 사항

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.

초록(요약)

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.

색인 처리(세부 사항)


주제
Mechanical engineering
분류
0548: Mechanical engineering
식별자/키워드
Applied sciences
제목
Design & Analysis of a 500 LBF Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Methane Rocket Engine
저자
Vargas Franco, Daniel
페이지 수
75
학위 날짜
2017
학교 코드
0459
원본
MAI 57/04M(E), Masters Abstracts International
출판 지역
Ann Arbor
출판 국가
United States
ISBN
978-0-355-60468-9
지도 교수
Choudhuri, Ahsan; Chessa, Jack
위원회 구성원
Chessa, Jack; Choudhuri, Ahsan; Contreras, Luis R.
대학/기관
The University of Texas at El Paso
부서
Engineering
대학 위치
United States -- Texas
학위
M.S.
원본 유형
학위논문
언어
영어
문서 형식
Dissertation/Thesis
학위논문 번호
10743689
ProQuest 문서 ID
2014469298
Copyright
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/unauthdocview/2014469298