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Diversity of design knowledge for launch vehicle in view of fuels on hybrid rocket engine

Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing, 2014
A single-stage launch vehicle with hybrid rocket engine, which uses solid fuel and liquid oxidizer, has been studied and developed as a next-generation rocket for scientific observation due to the advantages as low cost, safety, re-ignition, and reduced ...
Kazuhisa CHIBA, Masahiro KANAZAKI, Masaki NAKAMIYA, Koki KITAGAWA, Toru SHIMADA   +4 more
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Three-dimensional printed metal-nested composite fuel grains with superior mechanical and combustion properties

Virtual and Physical Prototyping, 2022
The mechanical and combustion properties of metal-nested composite hybrid rocket fuel grains composed of spiral aluminium (Al) frameworks fabricated using three-dimensional (3D) printing with an embedded paraffin-based fuel were investigated.
Xin Lin, Dandan Qu, Xuedong Chen, Zezhong Wang, Jiaxiao Luo, Dongdong Meng, Guoliang Liu, Kun Zhang, Fei Li, Xilong Yu   +9 more
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Swirled injector modeling for cavitating multiphase flow [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2019
The goal of this study is to present a comparison between different approaches to multiphase injection modeling of self-pressurized rocket engine propellant.
Ziegler Bartosz, Mosędrżny Jędrzej, Lewandowska Natalia   +2 more
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Conceptual design of single-stage launch vehicle with hybrid rocket engine using design informatics

Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2014
A single-stage launch vehicle with hybrid rocket engine has been conceptually designed by using design informatics, which has three points of view, i.e., problem definition, optimization, and data mining.
Kazuhisa CHIBA, Shin'ya WATANABE, Masahiro KANAZAKI, Koki KITAGAWA, Toru SHIMADA   +4 more
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The Adaptive Composite Block-Structured Grid Calculation of the Gas-Dynamic Characteristics of an Aircraft Moving in a Gas Environment

Mathematics, 2022
This paper considers the problem associated with the numerical simulation of the interaction between the cocurrent stream occurring near a monoblock moving in the gas medium and solid fuel combustion products flowing from a solid fuel rocket engine (SFRE)
Victor V. Kuzenov, Sergei V. Ryzhkov, Aleksey Yu. Varaksin   +2 more
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A Review of Recent Developments in Hybrid Rocket Propulsion and Its Applications

Aerospace
This paper extensively reviews hybrid rocket propulsion-related activities from combustion engine designs to launch tests. Starting with a brief review of rocket propulsion development history, a comparison among the three bi-propellant rocket propulsion
Shih-Sin Wei, Meng-Che Li, Alfred Lai, Tzu-Hao Chou, Jong-Shinn Wu   +4 more
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Conceptual design: Dependence of parameterization on design performance of three-stage hybrid rocket

Journal of Fluid Science and Technology, 2014
The subject of this paper is to improve on parameterization for conceptual design method of three stage hybrid rocket. Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm (MOGA) is employed to solve multi-disciplinary design exploration of a three-stage launch vehicle ...
Masahiro KANAZAKI, Fumio KANAMORI, Yosuke KITAGAWA, Masaki NAKAMIYA, Koki KITAGAWA, Toru SHIMADA   +5 more
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Neural Network-Based Optimization of Hybrid Rocket Design for Modular Multistage Launch Vehicle

Aerospace
In this paper, an integrated optimization is carried out to find the optimal hybrid rocket engine design for a modular multistage launch vehicle targeting a 500 km polar circular orbit. A single hybrid rocket engine unit is reused across the whole launch
Paolo Maria Zolla, Alessandro Zavoli, Mario Tindaro Migliorino, Daniele Bianchi   +3 more
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Variability analysis of ABS solid fuel manufactured by fused deposition modeling for hybrid rocket motors

Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Sciences, 2021
The process of fused deposition material (FDM) was used to manufacture propellant grains of Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) as novel rocket fuel grain, with three types of geometry in the burning port.
Jose Alejandro Urrego, Fabio Arturo Rojas, Jaime Roberto Muñoz   +2 more
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System Design and Launch of a Hybrid Rocket with a Star-Fractal Swirl Fuel Grain Toward an Altitude of 15 km

Applied Sciences
To achieve low-cost and on-demand launches of microsatellites, the authors have been researching and developing a micro hybrid rocket since 2014. In 2018, a ballistic launch experiment was performed using the developed hybrid rocket, where it reached an ...
Atsushi Takano, Keita Yoshino, Yuki Fukushima, Ryuta Kitamura, Yuki Funami, Kenichi Takahashi, Akiyo Takahashi, Yoshihiko Kunihiro, Makoto Miyake, Takuma Masai, Shizuo Uemura   +10 more
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