Advanced modeling of reactive flows in next generation throttleable, restartable liquid-propellant rocket engine.
| Componente | Categoria |
|---|---|
| Matteo Bernardini | Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca |
| Pietro Paolo Ciottoli | Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca |
| Francesco Creta | Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca |
| Componente | Qualifica | Struttura | Categoria |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrea Petrocchi | Borsista di Ricerca | DIMA | Altro personale aggregato Sapienza o esterni, titolari di borse di studio di ricerca |
| Lorenzo Angelilli | Dottorando | KAUST | Altro personale aggregato Sapienza o esterni, titolari di borse di studio di ricerca |
In the recent years, the present research group contributed with success to the research and development initiatives promoted by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the European Space Agency (ESA), and AVIO spa, devoting extensive efforts to modeling and simulating combustion phenomena and heat transfer in liquid rocket engines.
We propose to improve the computational capabilities of the present research group to extend the range of applicability of our numerical CFD models. This project's objective is to construct the numerical tools to predict the combustion and heat transfer phenomena in a throttleable, pintle injector-based, Oxygen-Methane
Liquid Rocket Engines (LRE) thrust chamber. To ensure the translational impact of the numerical tools, we propose to account for the uncertainties of the implemented models by resorting to efficient uncertainty quantification (UQ) techniques, measuring the degree of belief that a designer should have on the numerical estimates.
The project proposed here would guarantee the research group, and therefore Sapienza University, to maintain its leadership position in the space propulsion field.