Space systems design (spacecraft, satellites, space stations and their equipment)
Sajjad Davari; Hadiseh Karimaei; Mohammad Reza Salimi; Hassan Naseh
Volume 16, Issue 1 , March 2023, , Pages 35-46
Abstract
Monopropellant thruster are used to inject a satellite into orbit or control its position on three axes in space missions. One of them is hydrazine thruster which is widely used. In this research, design of the injector, decomposition chamber and nozzle of a 10N hydrazine monopropellant thruster have ...
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Monopropellant thruster are used to inject a satellite into orbit or control its position on three axes in space missions. One of them is hydrazine thruster which is widely used. In this research, design of the injector, decomposition chamber and nozzle of a 10N hydrazine monopropellant thruster have been performed. The capillary injector was designed using Fluent software for this thruster which was able to supply the mass flow rate of the thruster (5 gr/sec). The decomposition chamber contains catalyst granules and its dimensions were selected based on the complete decomposition of hydrazine. The nozzle was designed by RPA software. The validation of the design with RPA software was checked by a numeric code. This code was able to calculate the dimensions of the decomposition chamber based on the amount of hydrazine decomposition. Accordingly, the results of both design methods are strongly consistent with each other. At the end of the design, the final thruster design and drawings were prepared.
Space systems design (spacecraft, satellites, space stations and their equipment)
Sajad Davari; Hadiseh Karimaei
Volume 15, Issue 3 , September 2022, , Pages 109-118
Abstract
In this research, design and simulation of a single capillary injector and three-hole circular injector plate of a 10N Hydrazine monopropellant thruster were performed. Ansys Fluent software was used to simulate the injector and injector plate . Volume of fluid (VOF) method was used to simulate such ...
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In this research, design and simulation of a single capillary injector and three-hole circular injector plate of a 10N Hydrazine monopropellant thruster were performed. Ansys Fluent software was used to simulate the injector and injector plate . Volume of fluid (VOF) method was used to simulate such a flow and turbulence was simulated by k-e model. The characteristics of the injector and injector plate including mass flow rate and average velocity in the injector nozzle were calculated by changing the inlet pressure. The results showed that the injector and the injector plate have the ability to supply the desired mass flow rate of the monopropellant thruster at a known design pressure. In fact the capillary injector has replaced swirl injector with hollow cone spray used in the previous version of this thruster. The dimension of the chamber was significantly reduced by using the capillary injector, which reduces both the volume of the expensive iridium catalyst and weight of the thruster.