Numerical study of the influence of the physicochemical liquid fuel properties on the efficiency of the low-thrust rocket engine working process
Authors: Novikov A.V., Andreev E.A., Bardakova E.I.
Published in issue: #12(120)/2021
DOI: 10.18698/2308-6033-2021-12-2138
Category: Aviation and Rocket-Space Engineering | Chapter: Thermal, Electric Jet Engines, and Power Plants of Aircrafts
Low-thrust rocket engines are widely used in rocket and space technology for correcting the position of a spacecraft in orbit, for controlling motion along a trajectory, etc. Their number in the propulsion system can be from one to tens of units. Accordingly, the efficiency of their work significantly affects the perfection of the propulsion system as a whole. The object of the study was the low-thrust rocket engine combustion chamber operating according to the gas-liquid scheme. There were performed computational and parametric studies of various factor effects on the characteristics of the working process in the combustion chamber. The dependences of the coefficient of the consumable complex and parameters of the working process of the low-thrust rocket engine chamber on the influencing factors when using ethanol and kerosene as a fuel were calculated. A comparative analysis of the results of using these two components under similar conditions was carried out, which made it possible to reveal the influence of the physicochemical properties of the combustible component on the efficiency of the working process organization. The results obtained can be used in the design of low-thrust engines operating on the kerosene–oxygen and ethanol–oxygen propellants.
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