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Documents surrounding our work on the 2016 Liquid Fuel Rocket Engine capstone project

PSAS Liquid-Propellant Engine (LPE) Designs

Overview

PSAS is building a LPE because (1) it's cool and (2) it's part of our 100 km rocket project. This project started with a 2015-2016 ME capstone of a 2kN 1/4 scale engine and is building towards a planned 6 kN flight enginer for LV4.

Latest information

Summer 2019 creation of the 500lbf heat sink engine

TBA

2018-2019 Test Stand Integration MME capstone

Project files analyzing and machining the 500lbf thrust printed engine.

Quick links to folders:

• CT scanning
  
• Machining

2015-2016 liquid engine MME capstone.

Project files to develop a 500 lbf thrust 3D-printed liquid fuel rocket engine with LOX and IPA propellants. Here are a few helpful links:

• Combustion chamber design Jupyter notebook
• Pintle injector design Jupyter notebook
• Sketchfab 3D model of the Rev. 1 engine
• A short AIAA Space 2016 proceedings paper discussing the engine concept
• A short document explaning how the parametric curves for the cooling channels are computed