Advanced Rocket Engine Power Balance Model Development
An important government research lab involved in the development of liquid rocket propulsion systems was in need of new approaches for developing power balance models required to simulate pump fed liquid rocket engine systems. KCCE was tasked to both develop and implement these procedures into computer model for a specific engine configuration. The resulting models generate design and off-design operation and performance parameters such as thrust, specific impulse, pump discharge pressures and flow rates as well as pump and turbine rotation speeds, etc. In addition, the approach used is specifically designed to take advantage of the next generation, multi-processor chip-based laptop and desktop computers. This makes these newly developed programming techniques accessible to virtually all engineers working in this important area of liquid rocket engine development.
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