Client
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
Project Objectives
- Design and construct a gaseous hydrogen and oxygen rocket engine, and liquid water cooling system
- The rocket engine was used to generate a supersonic fuel rich exhaust stream for testing passive afterburning control techniques.
Summary of Project and Results (Non-Confidential)
- Designed and built the gaseous hydrogen fuel and gaseous oxygen oxidizer supply systems for the engine
- Designed and built the fuel and oxidizer injection and mixing systems for the combustion chamber
- Designed and built a variable length combustion chamber
- Designed and machined a variety of isentropic exit nozzles to produce a range of underexpanded and overexpanded exhaust flows
- Designed and built a water cooling jacket system for the combustion chamber and exit nozzle
- Create a computer control system using LABVIEW that provided electronic control via a GUI interface of the rocket engine operation
- The rocket engine performed successfully providing testing of afterburning control techniques
Gaseous Hydrogen/Oxygen Burning Rocket Engine for Analyzing Afterburning Exhaust Control