Fiscal Year	2012
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Investigator(s)	Brophy, Christopher M.
Sponsor	Strategic Systems Program (Navy)
Summary	This project supports the SSP initiative to investigate how non-compositional properties of current and future propellant formulations affect gas generator performance. This research effort will first perform a literature review of similar studies that have been reported in the literature and then proceed to model and estimate the sensitivities of propellant grain ingredients and manufacturing variations on the ability of the propellant grains to generate combustion products at the required levels and rates. The non-compositional properties such as radiative heat transfer, complete mixing, and physical variations of ingredient sources will be modeled computationally.
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