Jacopo Bonotto
Development and testing of a small scale hybrid rocket engine with a novel grain geometry.
Rel. Dario Giuseppe Pastrone, Patrick Lemieux, Filippo Masseni, Andrea Ferrero. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Aerospace Engineering, 2024
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Abstract
In recent years, Hybrid Rocket Propulsion has received significant attention as a candidate for space propulsion due to its safety, ability to throttle, ability to restart compared to solid rockets and low cost, simplicity and compactness compared to liquid propulsion. However, this technology also presents issues that have hampered its large scale adoption. One of the most important ones is the low and uneven regression rate of the solid fuel grain. The post-burn analyses of most fuel grains show a non-uniform regression rate along the grain length, with an increased consumption of the solid fuel at the upstream end of the motor.
Various types of solutions have been studied to solve this issue, such as swirl oxidizer injection, mechanical devices embedded in the solid fuel, metallic additives, and fuel grain geometries
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