Aerospike nozzles lend themselves well to this type of application because they. During normal operation, the aerospike nozzle works by combining two effects. It serves this purpose by expanding the flow and accelerating it, hence improving the. Pdf the flowfield established on the axisymmetric aerospikeplug nozzle in quiescent air is. Multidisciplinary approach to aerospike nozzle design. The gimbaled aerospike with fins has the advantage of combining.
A study of thrust vectoring techniques of annular aerospike nozzles was. Hybrid rocket motor aerospike nozzle tests youtube. Each aerospike node is automatically assigned a unique node identifier, which is a function of its mac address and of the listening port. An aerospike nozzle is a new type of rocket engine primarily meant to improve efficiency at high altitudes. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Click the hide or show aerospike nozzle data x in the toolbar to select the linear aerospike option and then insert 90 for the 2d ramp width in the space provided. Figure 2 shows an aerospike nozzle designed at cal poly and used in our cold flow facility for demonstration and flow visualization purposes. Introduction to aerospike and its aerodynamic features. The nozzle surface shape is defined with three spline knots.
As an alternative to classical bell nozzle designs, aerospike propulsion systems have been developed and tested since the 1950s. Pdf design and analysis approach for linear aerospike nozzle. Cal polys aerospike nozzle, used for cold flow tests. Flow of combustion gases is directed radially inward towards the nozzle axis. Analysis and the implementation of the results presented in chapter iv combine both. Creating the nozzle end use the same sweep command to sweep the end circle along the two arcs. A simplified design and optimization method of aerospike nozzle contour and the results of tests and numerical simulation of aerospike nozzles are presented.
Aerospike nozzle, finite element analysis, hybrid rocket, twophase. Active experimental set up and first results of cold. Numerical simulation of aerospike nozzle inviscid isentropic flowfield. Aerospike definition is a type of rocket engine in which exhaust is vented along a curved surface on the outside of the engine instead of through an open nozzle. Pdf design and optimization of aerospike nozzle using cfd. Previously, we discussed methods of reducing the length of a spike nozzle centerbody by replacing the ideal spike with a conical spike. Aerospike nozzles are rather unique, in that they are somewhat of a reverse version of the standard bell nozzle. Pdf numerical analysis on an aerodynamically thrustvectored. The aerospike nozzle is a bell nozzle with its nozzle profile turned inside out. This ensures that discrete edges are available for selection later. For secondary injection analyses an aerospike nozzle, truncated at 75 % of its full theoretical length, was chosen.
Methane dual expander aerospike nozzle rocket engine dtic. This is a combination of 3 test firings of an aerospike nozzle for my senior project in aerospace engineering from california polytechnic state university in. The most efficient method for an orbit inclination change is to combine it with the. Development of a reusable aerospike nozzle for hybrid. Pdf numerical simulation of aerospike nozzle inviscid isentropic. The data from figure9 were used as input for the aerospike analysis illustrated in figure10 where vacuum thrust and specific impulse isp are predicted to be 264,600 lbf and 454. Bani, abdalla ali, design and analysis of an axisymmetric aerospike supersonic micronozzle for a refrigerantbased coldgas propulsion system for small satellites 2016.
Design and analysis of a reusable n2ocooled aerospike nozzle. Pdf the present study shows results from numerical investigations of. Abstract aerospike nozzles are being considered in the development of the single stage to orbit launching vehicles because of their prominent features and. They have been in discussion for the upper stage of saturn v and. Aerospike definition of aerospike by merriamwebster. Instead of using a shroud to contain the exit flow.
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