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Stefano Mini, Fabrizio Ponti, Alessandro Brusa, Roberto Bertacin and Barbara Betti
Numerical studies intended to predict solid rocket motors anomalies are the major contributors when developing strategies to both limit expensive fire tests and to investigate and understand the physical phenomena from which anomalies can arise. This pap...
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Georgia Korompili, Günter Mußbach and Christos Riziotis
In the realm of space exploration, solid rocket motors (SRMs) play a pivotal role due to their reliability and high thrust-to-weight ratio. Serving as boosters in space launch vehicles and employed in military systems, and other critical & emerging a...
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Zhihong Wang, Chunguang Wang and Weiping Tian
In order to study the flow characteristics of a nozzle with large expansion ratio and its influence on the force on the nozzle, ground cold flow test research and a fluid?structure coupling simulation analysis were carried out (maximum expansion ratio e ...
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Songchen Yue, Lu Liu, Huan Liu, Yanfeng Jiang, Peijin Liu, Aimin Pang, Guangxue Zhang and Wen Ao
Solid propellant combustion and flow are significantly affected by condensed combustion products (CCPs) in solid rocket motors. A new aluminum agglomeration model is established using the discrete element method, considering the burning rate and formulat...
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Zhuopu Wang, Wenchao Zhang and Yuanzhe Liu
Solid rocket motors are prone to combustion instabilities, which may lead to various problems for the rockets, from unexpected oscillations, precision decreasing, to explosion. The unsteady combustion dynamics of the propellants play a crucial role in mo...
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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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Shixiong Song, Quanbin Ren, Min Tang, Jiawei Shi and Jiawei Wang
Fused deposition technology (FDM), as an additive manufacturing (AM) technology, holds immense potential in the field of solid grain manufacturing. It can accomplish complex grain shaping with ultra-low-pressure ratios, which are challenging to achieve u...
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Weiqiang Xiong, Yunjie Liu, Tianfu Zhang, Shixi Wu, Dawen Zeng, Xiang Guo and Aimin Pang
Aluminium?lithium alloy (Al?Li alloy) powder has excellent ignition and combustion performance. The combustion product of Al?Li alloy powder combined with ammonium perchlorate is gaseous at the working temperature of solid rocket motors, which greatly re...
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Suhang Chen, Yue Tang, Wei Zhang, Ruiqi Shen, Hongsheng Yu, Yinghua Ye and Luigi T. DeLuca
The low regression rates for hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB)-based solid fuels and poor mechanical properties for the alternative paraffin-based liquefying fuels make today hybrid rocket engines far from the outstanding accomplishments of solid ...
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Pedro L. K. da Cás, Carlos A. G. Veras, Olexiy Shynkarenko and Rodrigo Leonardi
At present, most small satellites are delivered as hosted payloads on large launch vehicles. Considering the current technological development, constellations of small satellites can provide a broad range of services operating at designated orbits. To ac...
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Jihyoung Cha
This study deals with the mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of chemical propulsion systems (CPSs). For this, we investigate and summarize a comprehensive collection of the simulation modeling developments of CPSs in academic works, applicati...
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Lorenzo Casalino, Andrea Ferrero, Filippo Masseni and Dario Pastrone
Hybrid rocket engines are a green alternative to solid rocket motors and may represent a low-cost alternative to kerosene fueled rockets, while granting performance and control features similar to that of typical storable liquid rocket engines. In this w...
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Hui Tian, Zhongshuo Wang, Hao Zhu, Yudong Lu, Jingfei Gao and Guobiao Cai
Catalytic hybrid rocket motors using hydrogen peroxide (HP) are easy and efficient to achieve multiple starts and stops, and hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) grains are commonly used due to their excellent mechanical properties. The low regressio...
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