OVERVIEW
This 3-day
Workshop, held in August 2019 at Purdue Zucrow Labs, provided attendees with
fundamental and practical aspects of rocket testing activities through a review
of propulsion (liquid, solid, hybrid, and electric) fundamentals,
state-of-the-art testing practices (e.g. instrumentation selection and
calibration, laser diagnostic, etc.), uncertainty analysis, and design of
experiments.
This one-of-a-kind workshop, facilitated by multiple AIAA technical committees and the world’s leading experts in rocketry, consisted of 16+ hours of technical lectures and discussions and 780 accompanying slides. Now for the first time, these video lectures and slides are all available on-demand.
WORKSHOP TOPIC OUTLINE
· Liquid Propulsion (LP)
o Fundamentals of Liquid Propulsion
o Turbomachinery testing
o Storable propellants: handling and characterization
o Cryogenic propellants: handling and characterization
o Suitcase rocket demonstration
o Altitude chamber testing (common with SP and HP, similarities and differences with EP)
o Pressure Gain Combustion: opportunities and challenges
o Thrust Measurements (LP and PG) - commonalities with SP, HP, EP
· Hybrid Propulsion (HP)
o Fundamentals of HP
o Thrust measurement challenges (common with SP)
o Scaling challenges
o Altitude chamber testing (common with SP and HP, similarities and differences with EP)
· Solid Propulsion (SP)
o Fundamentals of SP
o Propellant handling
o Thrust measurement challenges (common with HP)
o Throttling: options and challenges
o Altitude chamber testing (common with SP and HP, similarities and differences with EP)
· Electrical Propulsion (EP)
o Fundamentals of EP
o Thrust measurement challenges
o Vacuum chamber challenges: low pressures and high voltages
· Cross-cutting
o Uncertainty analysis
o Fundamentals of laser diagnostics
o Instrumentation selection and calibration
o Pressure regulators
o Lessons learned
o Heat transfer modeling: 1D to 3D, tools to check viability of experiment
o Structures modeling: 1D to 3D, tools to check viability of experiment
INSTRUCTORS
Dr. Timothee Pourpoint: Workshop Organizer, AIAA Liquid Propulsion Technical Committee, Associate Professor at Purdue University
Dr. David Lineberry: Research Engineer at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, AIAA Liquid Propulsion Technical Committee
Dr. Naveen Vetcha: Liquid Propulsion Analyst at ERC Inc./Jacobs ESSCA/NASA MSFC, AIAA Liquid Propulsion Technical Committee
Dr. Ashley Karp: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, AIAA Hybrid Propulsion Technical Committee
Dr. William Marshall: Chemical and Thermal Propulsion Systems Branch, NASA Glenn Research Center, AIAA Liquid Propulsion Technical Committee
Dr. Alexey Shashurin: Assistant Professor, Purdue University, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Technical Committee
Mr. David
K. McGrath: Director Advanced Technology at Northrop Grumman, Deputy
Director for the Propulsion and Energy Group
Dr. Michael Martin:
Research Scientist at Lynntech Inc., Electrical Propulsion Technical Committee
Dr. Robert Lucht:
Zucrow Laboratories Director, Professor at Purdue University
Dr. Carson Slabaugh:
Assistant Professor at Purdue, Aerodynamic Measurement Technology
Technical Committee
Mr. Scott McFarlane: Vice-President,
Force Measurement Systems, Inc.
Dr. Alex Schumaker: Senior
Aerospace Engineer, Air Force Research Laboratory, LPTC
CONTACT: Please contact Lisa Le or Customer Service if you have any questions about the course or group discounts (for 5+ attendees).
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