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Thermal Analysis on Plume Heating of the Main Engine on the Crew Exploration Vehicle Service Module
The crew exploration vehicle (CEV) service module (SM) main engine plume heating is analyzed using multiple numerical tools. The chemical equilibrium compositions and applications (CEA) code is used to compute the flow field inside the engine nozzle. The plume expansion into ambient atmosphere is simulated using an axisymmetric space-time conservation element and solution element (CE/SE) Euler code, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. The thermal analysis including both convection and radiation heat transfers from the hot gas inside the engine nozzle and gas radiation from the plume is performed using Thermal Desktop. Three SM configurations, Lockheed Martin (LM) designed 604, 605, and 606 configurations, are considered. Design of multilayer insulation (MLI) for the stowed solar arrays, which is subject to plume heating from the main engine, among the passive thermal control system (PTCS), are proposed and validated.
Publication: TFAWS07-1012.pdf
Source: TFAWS
Author: Xiao-Yen J. Wang and James R.Yuko
Year: 2007
Content Tags: nozzles, expansion, CFD, mli, multi-layer insulation, convection heat transfer, steady state, heat flux
Highlights in thermal engineering at Carlo Gavazzi Space
Publication: 17th_EWTES_MOLINA_FREQUENCYDOMAIN.pdf
Source: 17th Workshop on Thermal and ECLS Software-ESTEC
Author: Marco Molina, Christian Vettore
Year: 2003
Content Tags: third-party software, radks, heating rates