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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.

Resumo (sumário)

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.

Indexação (detalhes)


Assunto
Mechanical engineering
Classificação
0548: Mechanical engineering
Identificador / palavra-chave
Applied sciences
Título
Design & Analysis of a 500 LBF Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Methane Rocket Engine
Autor
Vargas Franco, Daniel
Número de páginas
75
Data da graduação
2017
Código da escola
0459
Fonte
MAI 57/04M(E), Masters Abstracts International
Local de publicação
Ann Arbor
País de publicação
United States
ISBN
978-0-355-60468-9
Orientador
Choudhuri, Ahsan; Chessa, Jack
Membro do comitê
Chessa, Jack; Choudhuri, Ahsan; Contreras, Luis R.
Universidade/instituição
The University of Texas at El Paso
Departamento
Engineering
Localização da universidade
United States -- Texas
Graduação
M.S.
Tipo de fonte
Dissertação ou tese
Idioma
Inglês
Tipo de documento
Dissertation/Thesis
Número da dissertação/tese
10743689
ID do documento ProQuest
2014469298
Copyright
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/unauthdocview/2014469298