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Rocket Nozzle Cooling System Modeling in AxSTREAM System Simulation

The document summarizes modeling of a liquid rocket engine nozzle cooling system. The model accounts for phase transitions and properties of supercritical hydrogen within the nozzle cooling jacket. The liquid hydrogen flows through the pump where it is compressed and then passes through the nozzle cooling jacket. As it heats up in the jacket, it changes phase before passing through the turbine to drive the pump. The results obtained were the wall temperature distribution and heat transfer coefficients to allow further analysis of thermal and structural properties of the wall materials.

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Rocket Nozzle Cooling System Modeling in AxSTREAM System Simulation

The document summarizes modeling of a liquid rocket engine nozzle cooling system. The model accounts for phase transitions and properties of supercritical hydrogen within the nozzle cooling jacket. The liquid hydrogen flows through the pump where it is compressed and then passes through the nozzle cooling jacket. As it heats up in the jacket, it changes phase before passing through the turbine to drive the pump. The results obtained were the wall temperature distribution and heat transfer coefficients to allow further analysis of thermal and structural properties of the wall materials.

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Rocket Nozzle Cooling System Modeling

Nozzle Cooling System Analysis


A liquid rocket engine with an expander cycle was
Case Study Summary modeled. The liquid hydrogen flows through the fuel
pump where it is compressed.

Goal:

Create an accurate model of a liquid rocket


engine’s nozzle cooling system, accounting
for the phase transitions and supercritical
hydrogen parameters within the nozzle’s
cooling jacket.

Requirements:

Estimate the cooling jacket outlet's


boundary conditions for subsequent
turbine design.
After being compressed, the hydrogen passes through
the nozzle cooling jacket where it heats up and changes
Parameters: phase before passing through the turbine which drives
the liquid hydrogen pump.
Pinlet = 27.19 psi
Tinlet = -421.078 ⁰F
P in comb chamber = 464.12 psi
Heat flux distribution.

Constraints:

Wall temperature distribution.

Results of the Study:

The wall temperature and heat transfer


coefficients for a system with heat flux
boundary conditions were obtained for
further thermal and structural analysis AxSTREAM System Simulation allows coupling the main
of the wall materials. propulsion system to its auxiliary systems in order to
perform their conceptual design or run analyses on
frozen geometries. Here, for example, the expander
cycle and the regenerative nozzle were modeled
together to holistically evaluate their interactions.
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