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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.

Özet

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.

Dizinleme (ayrıntılar)


Konu
Mechanical engineering
Sınıflandırma
0548: Mechanical engineering
Tanımlayıcı / anahtar kelime
Applied sciences
Başlık
Design & Analysis of a 500 LBF Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Methane Rocket Engine
Yazar adı
Vargas Franco, Daniel
Sayfa sayısı
75
Derece tarihi
2017
Okul kodu
0459
Kaynak
MAI 57/04M(E), Masters Abstracts International
Basım yeri
Ann Arbor
Yayınlanma ülkesi
United States
ISBN
978-0-355-60468-9
Danışman
Choudhuri, Ahsan; Chessa, Jack
Komite üyesi
Chessa, Jack; Choudhuri, Ahsan; Contreras, Luis R.
Üniversite/enstitü
The University of Texas at El Paso
Departman
Engineering
Üniversite konumu
United States -- Texas
Derece
M.S.
Yayın türü
Bilimsel İnceleme veya Tez
Dil
İngilizce
Belge türü
Dissertation/Thesis
Bilimsel inceleme/tez numarası
10743689
ProQuest belge kimliği
2014469298
Telif Hakkı
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/unauthdocview/2014469298