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Combustion Stability Innovations for Liquid Rocket Engines

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Air Force 		Award ID:
77053 		Program Year/Program:
2006 / STTR
Agency Tracking Number:
F064-005-0078 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
IN Space, L.L.C.
3495 Kent Avenue Suite G100 West Lafayette, IN -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2006
Title: Combustion Stability Innovations for Liquid Rocket Engines
Agency / Branch: DOD / USAF
Contract: FA9550-06-C-0115
Award Amount: $99,841.00
 

Abstract:

While guidelines for stable combustion in certain engine cycles and propellant combinations exist; there is no proven, mechanistic predictive model, particularly for high-performance liquid hydrocarbon-fueled engines. IN Space and Purdue propose to fill this critical need by developing a "testbed" consisting of 1) a predictive combustion stability design tool to mitigate the risk of generating instabilities in new designs or analyzing instabilities in existing designs of oxidizer-rich staged combustion (ORSC) engines and 2) a stability verification protocol to assess stability margin during full-scale engine testing. Analytical and experimental testbed elements needed to bring about these developments include subscale experiments at real-scale conditions to provide validation data; advanced CFD modeling based on detached eddy simulation, Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes and linear and non-linear Euler equations to provide fundamental understanding as well as to derive and test combustion response submodels for engineering analysis; engineering state-of-the-art level design analysis for data interpretation. State of Indiana matching funds will be used to construct and test a subscale combustor experiment needed to gather stability data in Phase I. The Phase I effort provides a strong foundation for a Phase II effort, which will focus on further product improvements and validation using a test article at full-scale conditions.

Principal Investigator:

William Anderson
Assistant Professor
7654962658
wanderso@purdue.edu

Business Contact:

Benjamin Austin
General Manager
7657752107
bjaustin@inspacellc.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

IN SPACE, L.L.C.
1220 Potter Drive, Suite 100 West Lafayette, IN 47906

EIN/Tax ID: 061678762
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
Research Institution Information:
PURDUE UNIV.
315 North Grant St.
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Contact: William Anderson
Contact Phone: (765) 496-2658
RI Type: Nonprofit college or university