摘要/詳細資料

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.

摘要 (摘要)

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.

索引 (詳細資料)


主題
Mechanical engineering
分類
0548: Mechanical engineering
識別碼/關鍵字
Applied sciences
標題
Design & Analysis of a 500 LBF Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Methane Rocket Engine
作者
Vargas Franco, Daniel
頁數
75
學位日期
2017
學校代碼
0459
來源
MAI 57/04M(E), Masters Abstracts International
出版地
Ann Arbor
出版國家/地區
United States
ISBN
978-0-355-60468-9
指導者
Choudhuri, Ahsan; Chessa, Jack
委員會成員
Chessa, Jack; Choudhuri, Ahsan; Contreras, Luis R.
大學/機構
The University of Texas at El Paso
部門
Engineering
大學地點
United States -- Texas
學位
M.S.
來源類型
論文或專題
語言
英文
文件類型
Dissertation/Thesis
論文/專題編號
10743689
ProQuest 文件識別碼
2014469298
著作權
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/unauthdocview/2014469298