著者

Masahiro KANAZAKI Shoma ITO Fumio KANAMORI Masaki NAKAMIYA Koki KITAGAWA Toru SHIMADA

出版者

一般社団法人 日本機械学会

雑誌

Journal of Fluid Science and Technology (ISSN:18805558)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.11, no.1, pp.JFST0003-JFST0003, 2016 (Released:2016-02-17)

参考文献数

8

被引用文献数

1

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This paper reports on the conceptual design of a three-stage launch vehicle (LV) with a clustered hybrid rocket engine (HRE) through multi-disciplinary design optimization. This LV is a space transportation concept that can deliver micro-satellites to sun-synchronous orbits (SSOs). To design a high-performance LV with HRE, the optimum size of each component, such as an oxidizer tank containing liquid oxidizer, a combustion chamber containing solid fuel, a pressurizing tank, and a nozzle, should be determined. In this study, paraffin (FT-0070) is used as a propellant for the HRE, and three cases are compared: In the first case, HREs are optimized for each stage. In the second case, HREs are optimized together for the first and second stages but separately for the third stage. In the third case, HREs are optimized together for each stage. The optimization results show that the performance of the design case that uses the same HREs in all stages is 40% reduced compared with the design case that uses optimized HREs for each stage.