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Zhuopu Wang, Kairui Yu and Yuanzhe Liu
The unsteady combustion of solid propellants under oscillating environments is the key to understanding the combustion instability inside solid rocket motors. The discontinuous Galerkin?finite element method (DG-FEM) is introduced to provide an efficient...
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Jacopo Guadagnini, Gabriele De Zaiacomo and Michèle Lavagna
This paper focuses on the mission analysis of the return trajectory of a Vertical Landing Reusable Launch Vehicle, both for Return-to-Launch-Site (RTLS) and DownRange Landing (DRL) recovery strategies. The main objective is to assess the mission performa...
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Jayson Craig Small and Liwei Zhang
The performance of detonation engines depends on propellant injectors. This study investigates a fluidic-valve injector mounted to a detonation tube. The injector is equipped with a recessed cavity connecting to the fuel plenum. After verifying the theor...
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Shuyuan Liu, Yu Zhang, Limin Wang, Zhengchun Chen and Songqi Hu
The effect of mixing on coupled heat release and transfer performance of a novel segregated solid motor is numerically evaluated with a transient two-dimensional combustion model. The results show that vortex structures are formed and evolved in the comb...
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Wonjae Yoon, Vikas Khandu Bhosale and Hosung Yoon
The development of propulsion systems based on green propellants, as an alternative to hydrazines, has been gaining interest within the space community. The study of Ammonium Dinitramide (ADN)-based liquid monopropellant, which is low-toxic and can deliv...
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Jifei Ye, Sibo Wang, Hao Chang, Yanji Hong, Nanlei Li, Weijing Zhou, Baoyu Xing, Bangdeng Du and Chengyin Xie
Laser micro-thrust technology is a type of propulsion that uses a laser beam to ablate a propellant such as a metal or plastic. The ablated material is expelled out the back of the spacecraft, generating thrust. The technology has the advantages of high ...
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Luca Leporini, Ferhat Yaman, Tommaso Andreussi and Vittorio Giannetti
Hall thrusters are plasma-based devices that have established themselves as one of the most attractive and mature electric propulsion technologies for space applications. These devices often operate in a regime characterized by low frequency, large ampli...
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Saleh B. Alsaidi, Jeongmoo Huh and Mohamed Y. E. Selim
The performance of two solid biomass wastes, date stone and jojoba solid waste, was experimentally examined for their potential application in combustion and propulsion systems. The fuels were tested in a hybrid rocket-like combustion environment, and th...
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Leonard Vance, Agustin Espinoza, Jorge Martinez Dominguez, Salil Rabade, Gavin Liu and Jekan Thangavelautham
Sustainable space exploration will require using off-world resources for propellant generation. Using off-world-generated propellants significantly increases future missions? range and payload capacity. Near Earth Objects (NEOs) contain a range of availa...
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Liangliang Ding, Xiaoxiao Cui, Liancheng Lu, Xufeng Yin, Xiaoguang Xue, Yuli Zhao and Xu Zhou
Space launch vehicles are usually loaded with a large amount of propellant, and the destructive power caused by their explosion is significant. The altitude of an accidental explosion will lead to differences in the destructive power, because the environ...
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