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Development of an aeroelastic modeling capability for transient nozzle side load analysis (Document No: 20140002607)
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Chen, Yen-Sen Wang, Ten-See Zhao, Xiang Zhang, Sijun |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | Lateral nozzle forces are known to cause severe structural damage to any new rocket engine in development. Currently there is no fully coupled computational tool to analyze this fluid/structure interaction process. The objective of this study was to develop a fully coupled aeroelastic modeling capability to describe the fluid/structure interaction process during the transient nozzle operations. The aeroelastic model composes of three components: the computational fluid dynamics component based on an unstructured-grid, pressure-based computational fluid dynamics formulation, the computational structural dynamics component developed in the framework of modal analysis, and the fluid-structural interface component. The developed aeroelastic model was applied to the transient nozzle startup process of the Space Shuttle Main Engine at sea level. The computed nozzle side loads and the axial nozzle wall pressure profiles from the aeroelastic nozzle are compared with those of the published rigid nozzle results, and the impact of the fluid/structure interaction on nozzle side loads is interrogated and presented. |
| File Size | 877166 |
| Page Count | 12 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20140002607 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6k122z3n |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2013-07-15 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Fluid Mechanics And Thermodynamics Dynamic Structural Analysis Nozzle Walls Computational Fluid Dynamics Unstructured Grids Mathematics Pressure Distribution Transient Loads Rocket Engine Design Aeroelasticity Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |