Publication detail

Parametric Study of a Cavitation Valve for Control of Oxidizer Flow in a Hybrid Rocket Engine

DVOŘÁK, P. TIJSTERMAN, R.

Original Title

Parametric Study of a Cavitation Valve for Control of Oxidizer Flow in a Hybrid Rocket Engine

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Part of a collaborative European effort to advance throttleable hybrid rocket technology, Bradford Engineering is developing a cavitating flow control valve. In order to improve performance of the valve Brno University of Technology has performed extensive numerical simulation campaign resulting in new valve design. The paper describes design considerations of the cavitating valve as well as characterization of the valve performance by experimental and numerical means. Furthermore, numerical parametric study is performed together with experimental evaluation of the optimized design.

Keywords

cavitation, control valve, oxidizer, hybrid engine

Authors

DVOŘÁK, P.; TIJSTERMAN, R.

RIV year

2013

Released

12. 6. 2013

Publisher

SVS FEM

Location

Škrochova 3886/42, 615 00, Brno

ISBN

978-80-905525-0-0

Book

21st SVS FEM Ansys Users' Group Meeting and Conference Proceedings 2013

Pages from

1

Pages to

15

Pages count

15

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT100572,
  author="Petr {Dvořák} and Rob {Tijsterman}",
  title="Parametric Study of a Cavitation Valve for Control of Oxidizer Flow in a Hybrid Rocket Engine",
  booktitle="21st SVS FEM Ansys Users' Group Meeting and Conference Proceedings 2013",
  year="2013",
  pages="1--15",
  publisher="SVS FEM",
  address="Škrochova 3886/42, 615 00, Brno",
  isbn="978-80-905525-0-0"
}