Yeah that's where I got the Idea from. And I'm hoping to atleast try
designing it.
If it works that will be brilliant, if it doesn't I just learnt a LOT about
designing liquid rocket engines.
On Fri, 10 Feb, 2023, 10:42 am Troy Prideaux, <troy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
In theory at least. IIRC that point was made on what was quite a good
episode of Everyday Astronaut on Aerospikes. There’s still the mass issue,
but there is potential there.
Troy
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*Subject:* [AR] Re: I took up a crazy challenge!
Expander Cycle rocket engines actually tackle problems of both the
expander Cycle and the aerospike nozzle.
Expanders suffer from a limit to how much thrust they can produce because
of the square cube law with the walls of the nozzle. ~300kN
Aerospikes suffer from overheating of the nozzle, especially the throat.
So an expander Cycle aerospike can potentially use all of that heat to
drive turbooumps.
This way our thrust limit is higher and our nozzle stays cool.
On Thu, 9 Feb, 2023, 11:27 pm Matthew JL, <prmattjl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I do not think an aerospike has the kind of surface area needed to run an
expander cycle off of - the actual engineering aside.
On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 3:53 AM Rocket Pavitra <
pavitrapatel.astro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey I'm Pavitra and as my college project I've taken up a crazy title.
'Expander cycle Aerospike Rocket engine'
You read that right and in hindsight I should probably shouldn't have
attempted something so crazy but at the time I though sure it's probably
unfeasable for me, an undergrad student, to attempt something like this but
if I try really hard I could end up learning a lot of stuff at least if not
make a successful project.
I've never worked on any liquid propellant rocket engine before so I need
your help with this.
I wanted to know what are all the simulation/computational softwares that
I need to carry out the necessary designing/calculations to make a basic
first design. I probably won't be making any hardware for this project,
because...well, funding.
But I'll be submitting the project as a design/simulation.
I already know that I'll need some form of computational fluid dynamics
and heat transfer simulations so I've added Matlab and Ansys to the list. I
also know I'll need the Rocket propulsion analysis software.
What other softwares will I need/will help me prepare a design?