48th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit 2012
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
30 July - 1 August 2012
Volume 1 of 7
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Volume 1
Turboelectric Distributed Propulsion System Modelling for Hybrid-Wing-Body Aircraft ...... 1 Chengyuan Liu, Georgios Doulgeris, Panagiotis Laskaridis, Riti Singh
Sensitivity of Mission Energy Consumption to Turboelectric Distributed Propulsion Design Assumptions on the N3-X Hybrid Wing Body Aircraft ...... 14 James Felder, Julio Chu, Michael Tong
Hybrid Axial and Cross-Flow Fan Propulsion for Transonic Blended Wing Body Aircraft ...... 28 Joseph Kummer, Jimmie Allred, James Felder
Development of a Wave Disk Engine Experimental Facility...... 54 P. Parraga-Ramirez, M. Varney, E. Tarkleson, Norbert Müller, Pezhman Akbari, Janusz Piechna
Thermodynamics of the Wave Disk Engine ...... 66 G. Sun, Pezhman Akbari, B. Gower, Norbert Müller
Experimental Optimization of Static Valveless Self-Aspiration of a Pulse Detonation Engine...... 80 William Stoddard, Andrew St. George, Robert Driscoll, Ephraim Gutmark
Experimental Study of Shock Transfer in a Multiple Pulse Detonation-Crossover System...... 90 Robert Driscoll, William Stoddard, Andrew St. George, Bradley Romanchuk, David Munday, Ephraim Gutmark
Current Status of Superheat Spray Modeling with NCC ...... 99 Manthena Raju, Dan Bulzan
Theoretical Prediction of Droplet Diameters Based on Energy Conservation Law ...... 120 Chihiro Inoue, Toshinori Watanabe, Takehiro Himeno, Seiji Uzawa, Mitsuo Koshi
Nanopropulsion from High-Energy Particle Beams via Dispersion Forces in Nanotubes...... 135 Fabrizio Pinto
USAF High Energy Laser (HEL) Systems: Multi-Spectral Algorithm Efficiencies Susceptibilities During Missile Staging [Case: GHADR 110 MOD 2 (SEJIL-2)]...... 166 Clifford Paiva, H. Slusher
Phase-Change Thermal Energy Storage and Conversion: Development and Analysis for Solar Thermal Propulsion ...... 187 David Scharfe, Matthew Gilpin, Marcus Young
Effect of Nuclear Side Reactions on Magnetic Fusion Reactors in Space...... 198 Georg Herdrich, Roland Gabrielli, Hans-Peter Röser, Sebastian Haid, Martin Heyn, Dejan Petkow
Shape of Characteristics of a Transonic Compressor ...... 215 Christian Pixberg, Martin Müller, Sebastian Leichtfuss, Heinz-Peter Schiffer
The Sensitivity of Multistage Compressor Performance to Inlet Boundary Conditions...... 227 John Brossman, Patrick Ball, Natalie Smith, Jeanne Methel, Nicole Key
Performance Measurements of a Low-Speed Single-Stage Axial-Flow Compressor ...... 239 Bradley Butler, Vincent Capece
Effect of Diminishing Particle Size on Solid Rocket Combustion Instability Symptom Suppression ...... 245 David Greatrix
Studies on Effect of Head Cavity on Resonance Damping Characteristics in Solid Rocket Motors ...... 261 Qiao Zhang, Junwei Li, Wanxing Su, Yan Zhang, Ningfei Wang
Reaction Rate Analysis for Selected Solid-to-Solid-Reaction Pyrotechnic Compositions...... 285 Lien Yang
A Particle Level-set Based Eulerian Method for Simulating Explosively Driven Metal Pipe ...... 324 Kihong Kim, Bohoon Kim, Jack Yoh
The Effects of Background Pressure on Hall Thruster Operation ...... 341 Kevin Diamant, Rotislav Spektor, Edward Beiting, Jason Young, Thomas Curtiss
Analysis of a Plasma Test Cell Including Non-neutrality and Complex Collision Mechanisms ...... 354 Paul Giuliano, Iain Boyd
A Step Towards Electric Propulsion Testing Standards: Pressure Measurements and Effective Pumping Speeds ...... 367 John Dankanich, Michael Swiatek, John Yim
Capillary Extraction of the Ionic Liquid [Bmim][DCA] for Variable Flow Rate Operations...... 380 Benjamin Prince, Shawn Miller, Joshua Rovey
Demonstration of an Automated Mass Flow Control System for Condensable Propellant Hall-effect Thrusters ...... 393 Mark Hopkins, Lyon King
Power and Propulsion Options for Piloted Solar System Exploration...... 404 Brice Cassenti
An Overview of the NASA Ames Millimeter-Wave Thermal Launch System...... 412 David Murakami, Kevin Parkin
Atmospheric Mining in the Outer Solar System: Resource Capturing, Storage, and Utilization...... 422 Bryan Palaszewski
Ground Testing a Nuclear Thermal Rocket: Design of a Sub-scale Demonstration Experiment...... 435 Steven Howe, David Bedsun, Deborah Lee, Margaret Townsend, Clay Cooper, Jenny Chapman, Mel Bulman, Ronald Samborski, Daniel Brasuell, Stanley Borowski
Simulation of a Shear Coaxial GO2/GH2 Rocket Injector with DES and LES Using Flamelet Models...... 445 Siddharth Thakur, Jeffrey Wright, Matthias Ihme, Kevin Tucker
The Impinging-type Injector Design of MMH/NTO Liquid Rocket Engine ...... 462 Tony Yuan, Cetera Chen, Berlin Huang, Marx Tang, Yu-Ta Chen
A Mechanistic Assessment of Swirl Injection and Atomization by X-ray Radiographic and Optical Techniques...... 474 Chad Eberhart, David Lineberry, Robert Frederick Jr., Alan L. Kastengren
Experimental Evaluation of a Reverse Engineering Swirl Atomizer ...... 486 M. Ziraksaz, F. Ommi, D. Ganji, M. Ashjaee
Numerical Investigation of Hybrid Motors for the EU FP7 SPARTAN Program...... 496 Marta Lazzarin, Nicolas Bellomo, Francesco Barato, Martina Faenza, Davide Rondini, Marco Manente, Alberto Bettella, Daniele Pavarin
Combustion Modeling and Analysis of Hybrid Rocket Motor Internal Ballistics ...... 519 Yensen Chen, Y. Y. Lian, L. Yang, B. Wu, T. H. Chou, J. S. Wu
Numerical Modeling of Paraffin-Based Fuels Behavior ...... 530 Francesco Barato, N. Bellomo, M. Lazzarin, F. Moretto, Alberto Bettella, Daniele Pavarin
Fundamental Jet Noise Reduction Science and Technology...... 549 Kailas Kailasanath, J. H. Liu, A. Corrigan, R. Ramamurti
Jet Noise Reduction Potential from Emerging Variable Cycle Technologies...... 556 Brenda Henderson, James Bridges, Mark Wernet
The Structure of Near Field Pressure Fluctuations Surrounding a Supersonic Jet ...... 571 Dean Long
Feasible Study on Low Frequency Plasma Jet as Ignition System for HAN Based Propellant...... 584 Toshiaki IIzuka, Minori Komatsu, Toru Tajika, Junichiro Aoyagi, Haruki Takegahara, Taiichi Nagata
Development of a 90% Hydrogen Peroxide Mono-Propellant Propulsion System for the Warm Gas Test Article...... 592 Wayne Neumaier Jr., Mark Wells, Anthony Brinkley, Thomas Talty
One Newton Thruster by Plasma-assisted Combustion of HAN-based Monopropellant ...... 603 Akira Kakami, Keisuke Ideta, Takuya Ishibashi, Takeshi Tachibana
Development of Mono-Propellant Propulsion System for a Japanese Microsatellite 'Hodoyoshi-1'...... 608 Shutaro Nishikizawa, Nobuyoshi Suzuki, Hironori Sahara, Naoki Miyashita, Yusuke Kuramoto
Two-Mode Active Thrust Modulation of a Solid Propellant Rocket Motor...... 612 Masafumi Tanaka, Yoichi Osawa, Yasushi Yokomine
Performance Improvement of a Laser-Ignition Micro Solid Rocket by Controlling the Combustion Wave Front ...... 618 Hiroyuki Koizumi, Yusuke Masuda, Masakatsu Nakano, Kimya Komurasaki, Yoshihiro Arakawa, Tomoyuki Hayashi
Kinetic Modeling of Hypergolic Propellants Using Impinging Element Injectors...... 625 Swanand Sardeshmukh, Steve Heister, Guoping Xia, Charles Merkle
Time-Averaged Characteristics of a Reacting Fuel Jet in Vitiated Cross-Flow...... 644 Ryan Sullivan, Benjamin Wilde, David Noble, Karthik Periagaram, Jerry Seitzman, Tim Lieuwen
Characteristics of a Supersonic Model Combustor with Two-Staged Injections of Supercritical Kerosene...... 657 Taichang Zhang, Yueming Yuan, Jianguo Li, Xuejun Fan
The Design of a Kerosene Turbopump for a South African Commercial Launch Vehicle ...... 669 Jonathan Smyth, Jeffery Bindon, Michael Brooks, Graham Smith, Glen Snedden
Analysis of a Distributed Hybrid Propulsion System with Conventional Electric Machines...... 681 Michael Green, Benjamin Schiltgen, Andrew Gibson
Benefits and Concerns of Hybrid Electric Distributed Propulsion with Conventional Electric Machines...... 693 Benjamin Schiltgen, Michael Green, Andrew Gibson, David Hall, Darold Cummings, Craig Hange
Dynamic Response and High Cycle Fatigue Analysis of Fan Blades under Inlet Distortion...... 712 Georgios Doulgeris, Guillaume Lelias, Riti Singh, Panagiotis Laskaridis, P. Pilidis
Examining Non-Uniform Generator and Propulsor Control Schemes for a Hybrid Electric Propulsion Concept...... 724 David Trawick, Christopher Perullo, Dimitri Mavris
Exploratory Simulations of the HIFiRE 2 Scramjet Flowpath...... 735 Robert Yentsch, Datta Gaitonde
Numerical Simulation of a Hypervelocity Scramjet Engine Using Silane - Hydrogen Fuel ...... 757 Patrick Vogel, Jack Edwards
High Fidelity Analysis of a Reacting Pulsed Supersonic Combustor ...... 775 Faure Malo-Molina, Houshang Ebrahimi
Radiative Heating in Hydrocarbon-fueled Scramjet Engines ...... 789 Jiwen Liu, Michael Brown
Characterization of Supersonic Flow Interaction with Shockwaves Using Laser-based Diagnostics ...... 806 Steven Etheridge, Jong Guen Lee, Campbell Carter, Mark Hagenmaier, Ryan Milligan
Novel Glow Plug for Compact High Density Engine Applications Operating on Heavy Fuels...... 816 Benjamin Baird, Shahrokh Etemad
Turbine-Burner Model: Cavity Flameholding in a Converging, Turning Channel Flow...... 826 William Sirignano, Ben J. Colcord, Feng Liu
Modeling and Simulation of Enhanced Reactant-Product Mixing in Ultra Compact Combustors ...... 859 Alejandro Briones, Balu Sekar, Hugh Thornburg
Combination of Fluidic Thrust Modulation and Vectoring in a 2D Nozzle...... 876 Ashraf Ali, Carlos Rodriguez, Andrew Neely, John Young
Effect of Ambient Pressure Fluctuations on the Dual-Bell Transition Behavior ...... 889 Shashi Verma, Ralf Stark, Oskar Haidn
Preliminary Trajectory Analysis of Microwave Rocket with Reed Valve Air-breathing System...... 899 Masafumi Fukunari, Anthony Arnault, Toshikazu Yamaguchi, Kimiya Komurasaki, Hiroyuki Koizumi, Yoshihiro Arakawa, Ikkoh Funaki, Hiroshi Katsurayama
Design of a Laboratory Hall Thruster with Magnetically Shielded Channel Walls, Phase II: Experiments ...... 907 Richard Hofer, Dan Goebel, Ioannis Mikellides, Ira Katz
Volume 2
Design of a Laboratory Hall Thruster with Magnetically Shielded Channel Walls, Phase III: Comparison of Theory with Experiment...... 946 Ioannis Mikellides, Ira Katz, Richard Hofer, Dan Goebel
Potential Contours in Ion Focusing Hall Thruster ...... 972 Kunning Xu, Hoang Dao, Mitchell Walker
Dependence of Lifetime on Magnetic Field Configuration in a Hall Thruster...... 990 Naoji Yamamoto, Hideki Nakashima, Azer Yalin
Investigating Ion Fragmentation in Electrospray Thruster Beams...... 995 Thomas Coles, Paulo Lozano, Timothy Fedkiw
Simulated Beam Extraction Performance Characterization of a 50 cm Ion Thruster Discharge...... 1012 John Foster, Sarah Nowak-Gucker, Aimee Hubble, Peter Peterson, Chris Davis, Eric Viges, Dave Chen
An Experimental Study of Single Cathode Gridded Ion Thrusters...... 1024 Yukio Hayakawa, Katsuhiro Miyazaki, Hiroshi Nagano, Yasushi Ohkawa, Toshiahru Higuchi, Shoji Kitamura
Numerical Lifetime Evaluation of Ion Thruster's Ion Optics Using the JIEDI Tool ...... 1031 Ikkoh Funaki, Hiroki Watanabe, Masakatsu Nakano, Yoshihiro Kajimura, Takeshi Miyasaka, Yoshinori Nakayama, Hitoshi Kuninaka, Iku Shinohara
Annular-Geometry Ion Engine: Concept, Development Status, and Preliminary Performance ...... 1042 Michael Patterson, Daniel Herman, John Foster, Rohit Shastry, Jonathan Van Noord
Failure Mode Analysis of V-Shaped Pyrotechnically Actuated Valves...... 1055 Jai Sachdev, Ashvin Hosangadi, James D. Chenoweth, Regor Saulsberry, Stephen McDougle
Analyzing the Effects of Electromagnetic Exposure on Energetic Compositions ...... 1066 Charlie Crane, Michelle Pantoya, Brandon Weeks
The Investigation of a Low Pressure Anomaly in a Pressure Cartridge Containing a Double-Base Propellant...... 1074 William Sanborn, Robert McCoy
2012 CAD/PAD Technology Roadmap Update...... 1083 Thomas Blachowski, John Burchett
Split Stream Flow Past a Blunt Trailing Edge with Application to Combustion Instabilities...... 1093 Ivett Leyva, Vicky Tian, Beverley McKeon
Numerical Analysis of Nozzle Material Thermochemical Erosion in Hybrid Rocket Engines ...... 1105 Daniele Bianchi, Francesco Nasuti
Biglobal Stability of Cylindrically-Shaped Hybrid and Solid Rockets with Injecting or Reactive Headwalls...... 1129 Trevor Elliott, Joseph Majdalani, Joshua W. Batterson
Multi Design Point Cycle Design Incorporation into the Environmental Design Space ...... 1147 Jeff Schutte, Jimmy Tai, Dimitri Mavris
Turboshaft Engine Predesign and Performance Assessment...... 1160 Stephane Burguburu, Pierre-Marie Basset
Improved Pareto Optimal Engine Cycle Designs Through the Use of a New Pareto Quality Indicator...... 1172 Nicholas Molino, Jonathan Sands, Scott Duncan, Eriks Osvalds, Dimitri Mavris
A Family of Thrusters for ADN-Based Monopropellant LMP-103S...... 1186 Mathias Persson, Kjell Anflo, Aaron Dinardi, J.-M. Bahu
Life Test Results for a New 4N (1 lbf) Thrust Class Hydrazine Monopropellant Engine...... 1201 Vincent C. Yarnot, Gerald T. Brewster
Performance Improvement of Hydrogen Peroxide Monopropellant by Blending Ethanol...... 1212 Jeongsub Lee, Dongwuk Jang, Sejin Kwon
Fabrication and Testing of CERMET Fuel Materials for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion...... 1217 Robert Hickman, Jeramie W. Broadway, Omar R. Mireles
Adjoint Design Methods for Nozzles for Reduced Noise in High-Speed Jets ...... 1222 Philip Morris, Nidhi Sikarwar, Dennis K. McLaughlin, Ching-Wen Kuo, Michael Lurie
Investigation of an Axisymmetric Transonic Jet with High Resolution Time-Resolved PIV ...... 1243 Zachary Berger, Kerwin Low, Stanislav Kostka, Sivaram Gogineni, Mark Glauser
Aeroacoustic and Performance Simulations of a Test Scale Open Rotor ...... 1254 Russell Claus
Pressure Oscillations Numerical Simulation in Solid Rocket Motors ...... 1263 Enrico Cavallini, Viviana Ferretti, Bernando Favini, Ferruccio Serraglia, Maurizio Di Giacinto
Theoretical Investigation of the Parietal Vortex Shedding in Solid Rocket Motors...... 1278 Germain Boyer, Gregoire Casalis, Jean-Luc Estivalezes
The Influence of Thermal Inhibitor Position on Pressure Oscillations in Solid Rocket Motors: Numerical Study ...... 1296 Wanxing Su, Zhijun Wei, Qiao Zhang, Yandong Zhao, Junwei Li, Ningfei Wang
Development of a 6-DoF Simulation of a VFDR Propulsion System...... 1307 Chistoph Bauer, Norman Hopfe, Pedro Caldas-Pinto, Guido Kurth
Effects of Gas Generator Burn Rate Variability on Variable Flow Ducted Rocket Design and Performance...... 1319 Daniel Macinnis
Effects of the Distance of High Temperature Metal Particles in a Secondary Combustor of Ducted Rockets ...... 1330 Aya Kamisaka, Kenichi Takahashi, Takuo Kuwahara
Numerical Investigation on Cavity Length for Solid Fuel Scramjet ...... 1336 Xinyan Pei, Zhiwen Wu, Junyi Liu, Zhijun Wei, Ningfei Wang
Development of a Robust and Efficient Parallel Solver for Unsteady Turbomachinery Flows ...... 1347 Jeffrey Wright, Siddharth Thakur, Edward Luke, Nathan Grinstead, Jeffrey West
Major Achievements Reached Through the LAPLACE-BCER Cavitation Test Turbopump Program...... 1366 Patrick Alliot, Julien Vigouroux, Benoit Pouffary, S. Legoupil, P. Nivet, V. Begin, A. Deneuve
Experimental Results of a Centrifugal Pump Using Hydrazine and MON-3...... 1371 Hideshi Kagawa, Taiichi Nagata, Akira Okayasu, Shohki Shimizu, Toyohiko Ota
Scaling Study of Wave Rotor Turbo Normalization of an Internal Combustion Engine ...... 1378 Marc Polanka, Brandon Smith, Daniel E. Paxson, John L. Hoke
Aerodynamic Analysis of High Rotation and Low Reynolds Number Propeller...... 1390 Lucas Oliveira, Hernán Cerón-Muñoz, Fernando Catalano
Thrust Augmentation Using High Power Beam and Reed Valve Air-breathing System...... 1401 Masafumi Fukunari, Shohei Saitoh, Toshikazu Yamaguchi, Kimiya Komurasaki, Reiji Komatsu, Yasuhisa Oda, Ken Kajiwara, Koji Takahashi, Keishi Sakamoto
Two-Fluid and PIC-Fluid Code Comparison of the Plasma Plume in a Magnetic Nozzle...... 1409 Jaume Navarro, Mario Merino, Eduardo Ahedo
Towards Computation of Resistive Magnetohydrodynamic Magnetic Nozzle Plasma Flow ...... 1418 Frans Ebersohn, Sharath Girimaji, John Shebalin, David Staack
An Analytical Model for the Flow of Collisionless Plasma Along Magnetic Fields ...... 1429 Justin Little, Edgar Choueiri
Magnetic Nozzle Far-Field Simulation...... 1445 Mario Merino, Eduardo Ahedo
A Numerical Study on Combustion-Stability Rating of Impinging-Jet Injectors in a Subscale Chamber...... 1456 Chae Hoon Sohn, Hyo Hyun Choi
Soot Emission Control through Electron Injection for Hydrocarbon Flames ...... 1462 Junya Suzuki, Hideyuki Horisawa, Yuya Matsuzawa, Itsuro Kimura
KHz Particle-image Velocimetry and Emission Measurements of Induced Turbulence in Premixed Propane/Air Flame by Millisecond Pulsed Current-Voltage ...... 1472 Jake Schmidt, Stanislav Kostka, Sukesh Roy, James Gord, Biswa Ganguly
Visualization of Vaporized Kerosene Combustion in a Supersonic Combustor Using Pulsed Schlieren System ...... 1483 Yueming Yuan, Meng Yang, Taichang Zhang, Xuejun Fan
Conceptual Study on Rocket Engine Test Facility for Higher Operability ...... 1493 Toyosaku Ueda, Naoki Nagao, Hideaki Nanri
Cryogenic Propellant Delivery and Controls Facility Development for LOX/Methane Propulsion Research...... 1502 Francisco Pineda, Jesus Betancourt-Roque, Ahsan Choudhuri
Development and Utilization of Rocket Engine Test Database (REDAK) in Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ...... 1507 Daizo Sugimori, Toyosaku Ueda, Hideaki Nanri, Toshiro Kanno, Takayuki Shibasaki
A review of Propulsion Industrial Base Studies and an Introduction to the National Institute of Rocket Propulsion Systems...... 1515 Rajiv Doreswamy, Emma K. Fry
High Density Hall Thruster Propellant Investigations...... 1530 James Szabo, Bruce Pote, Michael Robin, Surjeet Paintal, Vlad Hruby
Performance and Environmental Test Results of the High Voltage Hall Accelerator Engineering Development Unit...... 1545 Hani Kamhawi, Thomas Haag, Wensheng Huang, Rohit Shastry, Luis Pinero, Todd Peterson
High Pressure Optically Accessible Rocket Combustor Testing and Evaluation ...... 1559 Christopher Navarro, Jesus Betancourt-Roque, Louis Sanchez, Ahsan Choudhuri
Investigation of the API-Injection Concept in a LOX/LH2 Combustion Chamber at GG/PB Operation Conditions...... 1565 Dimitry Suslov, Jan Deeken, Oskar Haidn
Interaction of Acoustic Pressure Fluctuations with Supercritical Nitrogen Jets ...... 1574 Martin Schmid, Thomas Sattelmayer
Study on Self-Pulsation Characteristics of Gas/Liquid Shear Coaxial Injector with Annular Liquid Sheets...... 1584 Jungsoo Yoon, Youngbin Yoon, Jae Mook Chung
Faster-Than-Light Space Warps, Status and Next Steps...... 1593 Eric Davis
Recent Results of an Investigation of Mach Effect Thrusters ...... 1611 James Woodward, Heidi Fearn
RAMA Experiment - Persistence of Anomalous Thrusting Effects Using Laser Vibration Sensing...... 1626 Hector Brito, Carlos Dominguez, Roque De Alessandro, Eugenio Galian
Development of a Superconducting Helicon Thruster ...... 1634 John Vitucci, Raymond Sedwick
Investigation of Plasma Properties in a Helicon Injected Inertial Plasma Electrostatic Rocket (HIIPER)...... 1643 Akshata Krishnamurthy, Benjamin Ulmen, George Chen, Paul Keutelian, Michael Reilly, George Miley
Experimental Assessment of Double Langmuir Probe Analysis Techniques in a Hall Thruster Plume...... 1652 Daniel Brown, Brian Beal, Joseph Blakely
Ion Current Density Study of the NASA-300M and NASA-457Mv2 Hall Thrusters ...... 1665 Wensheng Huang, Rohit Shastry, Daniel Herman, George Soulas, Hani Kamhawi
A Comparison of Ion Acceleration Characteristics for Krypton and Xenon Propellants within a 600 W Hall Effect Thruster...... 1694 Gregory Azarnia, William Hargus Jr., Michael Nakles
Optical Emission Spectra of the Iodine Hall Thruster...... 1704 Benjamin Prince, Yu-Hui Chiu
Progress of the Development of an All-electric Control System of a Rocket Engine...... 1712 Patrick Alliot, Jean-Noel Chopinet, Francois Lassoudiere, Sylvain Guedron, H. Pinhède, G. Roz, O. Faye, S. Le Gonidec
Experimental and Numerical Study of Thrust-Vectoring Effects by Transverse Gas Injection into a Propulsive Axisymmetric C-D Nozzle...... 1719 Vladeta Zmijanovic, Viviana Lago, Luc Leger, Mohamed Sellam, Amer Chpoun
Best Practices from the Design and Development of the Ares I Launch Vehicle Roll and Reaction Control Systems...... 1735 Adam Butt, Chris Popp, Frankie Jernigan, Lila Paseur, Hank Pitts
Application of Sweep to Low Pressure Turbine Blade for Tip Flow Containment ...... 1756 Rachel Trehan, Bhaskar Roy
Aerodynamic Investigation of Incidence Angle Effects in a Large Scale Transonic Turbine Cascade...... 1765 Ashlie McVetta, Paul Giel, Gerard E. Welch
Heat Transfer Investigation on a Transonic Turbine Cascade with Pulsating Trailing Edge Cooling...... 1780 Bayindir Saracoglu, Guillermo Paniagua
Design of a High Power Rocket Aerodynamics DAQ Payload...... 1788 Daniel Cavender, Brandon Setayesh, Nathan Toy, Robert Frederick
Microfluidics in the First-Year Classroom: Understanding the Foundation ...... 1808 Barbara Carruthers, Scott Abernathy, Michael Snyder, Hannah Driscoll, Paul Clingan
Student Design/Build/Test of a Throttleable LOX-LCH4 Thrust Chamber...... 1821 Thomas Feldman, Andrew Rettenmaier, William Anderson, Michael J. Bedard
Institution and Community Wide Approach to Engineering Workforce Development...... 1832 Nathaniel Robinson, Ahsan Choudhuri
One-Dimensional, Two-Phase Flow Modeling Toward Interpreting Motor Slag Expulsion Phenomena ...... 1837 Timothy Kibbey
Agglomeration/Breakup Studies on Radial Slot Flows in Solid Rocket Motor...... 1853 Ki Sun Park, Stephen Heister
Volume 3
Propellant Effects on SRM Upper Stage Internal Ballistics and Performance with Nozzle Erosion Characterization ...... 1872 Enrico Cavallini, Daniele Bianchi, Bernando Favini, Maurizio Di Giacinto, Ferruccio Serraglia
Large Solid Rocket Motors for Future European Launcher...... 1888 Didier Boury, Aude Copey, Philippe Cloutet, Eric Robert, Nathalie Cesco
How Fast Can We Go To Mars Using High Power Electric Propulsion?...... 1899 Richard Epenoy, Nicolas Berend, Elisa Cliquet, Jean-Marc Ruault
Analysis of Roll Steering for Solar Electric Propulsion Missions ...... 1919 Dylan Pederson, Jeffery Hojnicki
Executive Summary of Propulsion on the Orion Abort Flight-Test Vehicles ...... 1928 Daniel Jones, Syri Koelfgen, Marvin Barnes, Rachel McCauley, Terry Wall, Brian Reed, C. Duncan
The Vortex Reloaded Project: Numerical Investigation on Fully Tangential Vortex Injection in N2O - Paraffin Hybrid Motors ...... 1947 Nicolas Bellomo, Francesco Barato, Martina Faenza, Alberto Bettella, Daniele Pavarin
Combustion Characteristics of Paraffin-Fueled Swirling Oxidizer-Flow-Type Hybrid Rocket Engines ...... 1969 Daisuke Saito, Saburo Yuasa, Kousuke Hirata, Takashi Sakurai, Noriko Shiraishi
A Study of Hybrid Rockets with Multi-Section Swirl Injection Method ...... 1977 Yoshihide Hirata, Sho Ohyama, Shigeru Aso, K. Araki, K. Ohe, Yasuhiro Tani, Toru Shimada
Effects of Injector Design and Impingement Techniques on the Atomization of Self-Pressurizing Oxidizers...... 1989 Benjamin Waxman, Brian Cantwell, Greg Zilliac
Numerical Study of Heat Transfer in Film Cooled Thrust Chambers...... 2002 Barbara Betti, Emanuele Martelli, Francesco Nasuti, Marcello Onofri
Modelling and Simulation of Film Cooling in Liquid Rocket Engine Propulsion Systems ...... 2017 Francesco Di Matteo, Matteo Venanzi, Barbara Betti, Marco De Rosa, Marcello Onofri
Assessment of Analytical Models for Film Cooling in a Hydrocarbon/GOX Rocket Combustion Chamber...... 2029 Oskar Haidn, Christoph Kirchberger, Gregor Schlieben
Using Intra Cooling Channel Measurements for Film Cooling Investigations in a GOX/Kerosene Rocket Combustion Chamber...... 2042 Gregor Schlieben, Christoph Kirchberger, Oskar Haidn
Performance and Weight Estimates for an Advanced Open Rotor Engine...... 2053 Eric Hendricks, Michael Tong
Fuel Burn Benefits of a Variable-Pitch Geared Fan Engine ...... 2065 Ian Halliwell, Karleine Justice
An Integrated Assessment of an Advanced Open Rotor Configuration Using the Environmental Design Space ...... 2089 Christopher Perullo, Benjamin Havrilesko, Jimmy Tai, Dimitri Mavris
On the Reality of Gravity-Like Fields...... 2100 Jochem Hauser, Walter Dröscher
Physics of the Electromagnetic Control of Spacetime and Gravity...... 2119 Lance Williams
Optimal Inlet Shape Design of N2B Hybrid Wing Body Configuration ...... 2130 Hyoung Jin Kim, Meng-Sing Liou
Hybrid Wing Body Engine Cycle Design Exploration for Boundary Layer Ingesting (BLI) Propulsion Systems Under Design Uncertainty ...... 2160 Jonathan Sands, Jonathan Gladin, Brian Kestner, Dimitri Mavris
The UltraFan Engine and Aircraft Based Thrust Reversing ...... 2177 Bruce McKay, Andrew Barlow
Parametric Heat Exchanger Design for Next Generation Advanced Vehicle and Propulsion System Analysis...... 2187 Phillip Gray, Brian Kestner, Dimitri Mavris
Performance of a Rocket-Ramjet Combined-Cycle Engine Model under Ramjet-Mode Operations...... 2201 Sadatake Tomioka, Kanenori Kato, Kouichiro Tani, Susumu Hasegawa, Masatoshi Kodera, Shuichi Ueda
Research on Flow Structure of Supersonic Combustion Chamber Based on Cavity - Strut Flame Holder...... 2211 Yanhui Zhao, Jian-Han Liang, Yuxin Zhao, Mingbo Sun, Long Yang
Experimental Study on Combustion Mode Transition in an Aero-ramp Based Scramjet ...... 2219 Baoxi Wei, Yan Zhang, Liang Tian, Ganglin Song, Xu Xu
Study of Forebody Injection and Mixing with Application to Hypervelocity Airbreathing Propulsion...... 2228 Erik Axdahl, Ajay Kumar, Alan Wilhite
LES/RANS Simulations of Turbulent Mixing in Gas Plumes ...... 2252 Ilya Zilberter, Jack Edwards
Three-Dimensional Heat Transfer Analysis and Optimized Design of Actively Cooled Strut for Scramjet Applications...... 2293 Fengquan Zhong, Tongying Chen, Xuejun Fan, Lihong Chen, Xinyu Chang
Effect of Inductive Coil Geometry on the Operating Characteristics of an Inductive Pulsed Plasma Thruster...... 2301 Ashley Hallock, Kurt Polzin, Adam C. Kimberlin, Kevin A. Perdue
Numerical and Experimental Efforts to Explain Delayed Gas Breakdown in θ-pinch Devices with Bias Magnetic Field...... 2317 Warner Meeks, Joshua Rovey
VASIMR® VX-200 Improved Throttling Range...... 2328 Benjamin Longmier, Leonard Cassady, Chris S. Olsen, Maxwell G. Ballenger, Jared Squire, Mark Carter, Andrew Ilin, Tim Glover, Greg E. McCaskill, Franklin Chang Diaz, Edgar Bering III
Simulation of Particle Recirculation in the VASIMR® Plasma Engine Backfield ...... 2342 Michael Martin, Thomas Lalk, David Staack
Current Status of the Technology Development Project for a New Storable Propellant Upper Stage Engine Demonstrator ...... 2353 Richard Arnold, Georg Obermaier, Andreas Götz, Katharina Quering, Louis Souverein, Jean-Noel Caruana
An End-to-End High Fidelity Numerical Simulation of the LE-X Engine - Combustion Chamber Risk Evaluation...... 2363 Naoki Tani, Nobuhiro Yamanishi, Akihide Kurosu
Design and Development of a LOx/LCH4 Technology Demonstrator...... 2375 Vito Salvatore, Francesco Battista, Raffaele Votta, Marco Di Clemente, Michele Ferraiuolo, P. Roncioni, D. Ricci, P. Natale, M Panelli, D. Cardillo, Pierpaolo De Matteis
Airfoil Base Region Control with Dielectric Barrier Discharge...... 2399 Guillermo Paniagua, Pablo Rocandio, Yacine Babou
Estimation of Heat Transfer Performance for Compressor Stators Heat Exchangers in a New Intercooled and Recuperated Aviation Gas-Turbine Engine ...... 2407 Yutaka Ito, Naoki Yamamoto, Takao Nagasaki
Stability of the Phase-Lag Boundary Condition in Turbomachinery Simulations ...... 2417 Ambady Suresh, Akil Rangwalla
Impact of Engine Icing on Jet Engine Compressor Flow Dynamics ...... 2426 Reema Kundu, J. V. R. Prasad, Prashant Tiwari, Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow, Peter Szucs, Tsuguji Nakano, Byron Pritchard
Performance Test Results of the NASA-457M v2 Hall Thruster ...... 2439 George Soulas, Hani Kamhawi, Daniel Herman, Thomas Haag, Wensheng Huang, Rohit Shastry
Electric Propulsion of a Different Class: The Challenges of Testing for MegaWatt Missions...... 2456 Roland Florenz, Thomas Liu, Alec Gallimore, Hani Kamhawi, Daniel Brown, Richard Hofer, James Polk
Modeling Exhaust Effects in Rotating Detonation Engines...... 2469 Douglas Schwer, Kailas Kailasanath
Design of an Optically-Accessible Rotating Detonation Engine...... 2484 David Dausen, Christopher Brophy, Robert Wright, J. D. Marder
Experimental Research on the H2/Air Continuous Rotating Detonation Engine...... 2496 Shijie Liu, Zhiyong Lin, Jin Zhou, Jian-Han Liang
Experimental Research on Transition Regions in Continuously Rotating Detonation Waves...... 2502 Yuhui Wang, Jianping Wang, Tianyi Shi, Yusi Liu
Micro Radio-Frequency Ion Propulsion System...... 2514 Michael Tsay, Kurt Hohman, Nathaniel Rosenblad, Eric Ehrbar, Michael Robin, Cody Farnell
Near-Surface Cusp Confinement for Weakly Ionized Plasma ...... 2525 Richard Wirz, Samuel Araki, Ben Dankongkakul
Development of the Miniature Ion Propulsion System for 50 kg Small Spacecraft...... 2540 Hiroyuki Koizumi, Kimya Komurasaki, Yoshihiro Arakawa
Miniature Ion Thruster Using a Cylindrical Micro ICP...... 2545 Yoshinori Takao, Koji Eriguchi, Kouichi Ono
A Fluiddynamic Performance Model of a Helicon Thruster...... 2556 Eduardo Ahedo, Jaume Navarro, Mario Merino
Laboratory Model Development of Lissajous Acceleration for Electrodeless Helicon Plasma Thruster ...... 2566 Takeshi Matsuoka, Ikkoh Funaki, Syuhei Satoh, Takayasu Fujino, Shota Iwabuchi, Takahiro Nakamura, Hiroyuki Nishida, Shunjiro Shinohara, Takao Tanikawa, Tohru Hada, Konstantin P. Shamra
Helicon Injected Inertial Plasma Electrostatic Rocket (HIIPER): Experimental Proof of Principle...... 2577 Akshata Krishnamurthy, Benjamin Ulmen, George Chen, Paul Keutelian, George Miley
Small Fast Spectrum Reactor Designs Suitable for Direct Nuclear Thermal Propulsion...... 2586 Bruce Schnitzler, Stanley Borowski
Thermal, Fluid, and Structural Analysis of a Cermet Fuel Element...... 2599 Mark Stewart, Bruce Schnitzler
Cycle Analysis of a 200MW Class CERMET Based NTR Engine...... 2620 James Fittje, Bruce Schnitzler
Visualization of the Liquid Layer Combustion of Paraffin Fuel for Hybrid Rocket Applications...... 2630 Ashley Chandler, Elizabeth Jens, Brian Cantwell, G Scott Hubbard
Design and Testing of FDM Manufactured Paraffin-ABS Hybrid Rocket Motors ...... 2641 Jonathan McCulley, Andrew Bath, Shannon Eilers, Stephen Whitmore
Paraffin Fuel and Additive Combustion in an Opposed Flow Burner Configuration ...... 2665 Christopher Zaseck, Timothee Pourpoint, Steven Son, Steven C. Shark
Enhanced Evaporation of Nanofluid Fuels under Radiation ...... 2676 Yanan Gan, Li Qiao
Synthetic Jet Fuels and Their Impact in Aircraft Performance and Elastomer Materials ...... 2684 Sergio Arias Quintero, Mark Ricklick, Jayanta Kapat
Catalytic Ignition in Hydrogen Peroxide-based Space Propulsion Systems...... 2695 Salvatore Bonifacio, Giandomenico Festa, Annamaria Russo Sorge
Recent Results on Thread Formation with an Impinging Jet Injector ...... 2707 Michele Negri, Mattia Redaelli, Helmut Ciezki
Transient Side Load Analysis of Out-of-Round Film-Cooled Nozzle Extensions ...... 2718 Ten-See Wang, Jeff Lin, Michael Guidos
Fully-Coupled Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulations of Rocket Engine Side Loads...... 2747 Eric Blades, Edward Luke, Joseph Ruf
Optimisation of a Rocket Nozzle Side Load Reduction Device ...... 2768 Ralf Stark, Chloe Genin
Ignition and Combustion Characteristics of Liquid GAP with Metals and Oxidizer ...... 2775 Shinta Yamauchi, Takuo Kuwahara
Characteristics of Aluminum Agglomeration at Burning Surface in AP/AN Composite Propellants ...... 2781 Sho Oide, Kenichi Takahashi, Takuo Kuwahara
A New Three-Dimensional Ballistic Model for Solid Rocket Motor Non-Homogeneous Combustion...... 2788 Roberto Bertacin, Fabrizio Ponti, Adriano Annovazzi
Modeling Active Pressure Control in a Large Scale Cryogenic Storage Tank in Normal Gravity ...... 2801 Olga Kartuzova, Mohammad Kassemi
Volume 4
Contamination Control of the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Propellant Tank ...... 2821 Graham Webster, Carlos Toro-Almodóvar, Greg Falk
Non-Dimensional Parameterization of Tank Purge Behavior...... 2831 Jacob Roth, Sunil Chintalapati, Daniel Kirk
Systems Analysis of a LOX/LH2 Rocket Engine with a Transpiration-Cooled Ceramic Thrust-Chamber...... 2848 Armin Herbertz, Markus Selzer
Transpiration Cooled Ceramic Thrust Chamber Applicability for High-Thrust Rocket Engines...... 2870 Armin Herbertz, Markus Ortelt, Ilja Müller, Hermann Hald
Analysis on the Effect of Channel Aspect Ratio on Rocket Thermal Behavior...... 2885 Marco Pizzarelli, Francesco Nasuti, Marcello Onofri
Improved Correlations for Curvature Effects in Cooling Channels of Rocket Engines ...... 2897 Mohammad Naraghi, Robin Dassonville
Aircraft System Study of Boundary Layer Ingesting Propulsion...... 2913 Larry Hardin, Gregory Tillman, Om Sharma, Jeffrey Berton, David Arend
Parametric Analysis and Design for Embedded Engine Inlets ...... 2925 Razvan Florea, Claude Matalanis, Larry Hardin, Mark Stucky, Aamir Shabbir
Aeromechanics Analysis of a Boundary Layer Ingesting Fan...... 2937 Milind Bakhle, T. S. R. Reddy, Gregory Herrick, Aamir Shabbir, Razvan Florea
Fan Response to Total Pressure Distortions Produced by Boundary Layer Ingesting Serpentine Inlets ...... 2949 Anthony Ferrar, Walter O'Brien
Bayesian Collaborative Sampling for Aero-Propulsion Design of an Engine and Nacelle...... 2970 Chung Lee, Dimitri Mavris
Nacelle External Drag Prediction Using Computational Fluid Dynamics...... 2991 Jongwook Joo, Gregory Tillman, Ray-Sing Lin
Computational Simulation of Dynamic Total-Pressure Distortion in an S-Diffuser ...... 3016 James Mace, Matthew Lakebrink, Mortaza Mani, William Steenken
Effect of Flow Distortion on Cavity-Assisted Fuel Injection ...... 3031 John Boles, Ryan Milligan, Mark Hagenmaier, Campbell D. Carter, Jeffrey M. Donbar
Numerical Study of Supersonic Flow over Backward-Facing Step for Scramjet Application...... 3048 Abdullah Karimi, Sameera Wijeyakulasuriya, Mohamed Nalim
The Non-reacting Flow Characteristics of a Model Supersonic Combustor ...... 3062 Cheng Gong, Mingbo Sun, Jian-Han Liang
Brush Seal Hysteresis...... 3073 Aaron Bowsher, Peter Crudgington, Tracey Kirk, Jas Walia
A Novel High Temperature Non-Contact Dynamic Seal ...... 3083 Peter Crudgington, Rodney Cross, Edward Cross
Experimental Results of an Aramid Fiber Brush Seal for High-Power Density, Liquid-Cooled, Rotating Electric Machines...... 3093 William Gerstler, Kum-Kang Huh, Eric Ruggiero, Farshad Ghasripoor, Ayman El-Refaie, Peter De Bock, Xiaochun Shen, James Alexander
Study of Hydrogen Combustion in Homogeneous Reactor ...... 3105 Rene Gonçalves, José Atílio Rocco, Koshun Iha
Combustion of Nanofluid Fuels with the Addition of Boron and Iron Particles...... 3116 Yanan Gan, Li Qiao
Combustion Evaluation of PU Solid Fuel Based on Pre-polymer Technology Additivated with Paraffin and Aluminum for Hybrid Rocket Engines ...... 3124 Susane Gomes, Leopoldo Rocco Jr., Jose Rocco, Koshun Iha, Roberta Jachura
Combustion and Heat Transfer Modeling in Regeneratively Cooled Thrust Chambers (Optimal Solution Procedures for Heat Flux Estimation of a Full-Scale Thrust Chamber) ...... 3131 Yu Daimon, Hideyo Negishi, Nobuhiro Yamanishi, Yoshio Nunome, Masaki Sasaki, Takeo Tomita
Structural Investigations on Cryogenically Operated and Transpiration Cooled Fibre Reinforced Rocket Thrust Chambers ...... 3146 Markus Ortelt, Hermann Hald, Armin Herbertz, H. Elsaesser, I. Müller
Cyclic Laser Heating and Optical Measurement of Combustion Chamber Wall Structures...... 3166 Joerg Riccius
Experimental Investigation of Steady-State Applied-Field Magnetoplasmadynamic Thrusters at Institute of Space Systems...... 3176 Adam Boxberger, P. Bambach, Georg Herdrich, S. Fasoulas, Mario Merino, Eduardo Ahedo
Effect of Inter-electrode Geometry on the Performance of an Applied-field 2D MPD Thruster...... 3186 Masaya Takubo, Hiroyuki Koizumi, Toru Hyakutake, Hitoshi Kuninaka
Development of the Starfish Plasma Simulation Code and Update on Multiscale Modeling of Hall Thrusters ...... 3196 Lubos Brieda, Michael Keidar
Lifetime Simulation of an SPT-Type Hall Thruster by Using a 2D Fully Kinetic PIC Model ...... 3226 Shinatora Cho, Kimiya Komurasaki, Yoshihiro Arakawa
Peregrine Hybrid Rocket Motor Ground Test Results ...... 3242 Greg Zilliac, Benjamin Waxman, Eric Doran, Jonathan Dyer, Arif Karabeyoglu, Brian Cantwell
Experimental Characterization of a Hydrogen Peroxide Simulator ...... 3262 Federico Moretto, E. Geremia, M. Faenza, N. Bellomo, A. Selmo, A. Bettella, D. Pavarin
Development of a Student Hybrid Rocket ...... 3281 Jan Erik Ronningen, Roy Vesterås, Morten Berger
Overview of the University of Colorado at Boulder Hybrid Sounding Rocket Project (HySoR) ...... 3300 Matthew Cannella, Zachary Grunder, Bruno Lesage, Meagan Slater, Corey Snyder, Stuart Tozer
Plasma Structure of Miniature Ring-Cusp Ion Thruster Discharges...... 3308 Hann-Shin Mao, Richard Wirz
Performance of Miniature Microwave Discharge Ion Thruster for Drag-free Control...... 3321 Takehiro Izumi, Hiroyuki Koizumi, Hitoshi Kuninaka, Yoshiki Yamagiwa, Makoto Matsui
NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) Long-Duration Test as of 736 kg of Propellant Throughput...... 3329 Rohit Shastry, Daniel Herman, George C. Soulas, Michael J. Patterson
Progress Towards a Miniaturized Electrospray Thruster for Flexible Propulsion of Small Spacecraft ...... 3349 Simon Dandavino, Caglar Ataman, Subha Chakraborty, Herbert Shea, Charlie Ryan, John Stark
Numerical Simulation of a 3D Unsteady Two-phase Flow in the Filling Cavity in Oxygen of a Cryogenic Rocket- Engine ...... 3362 Marie-Charlotte Gauffre, Hervé Neau, Olivier Simonin, Renaud Ansart, Nicolas Meyers, Stephane Petitot
A Streamlined Approach to Venturi Sizing...... 3384 Ashley Scroggins
Experimental Investigation of Cavitation Induced Feedline Instability from an Orifice ...... 3400 Matthew Hitt, David Lineberry, Vineet Ahuja, Robert A. Frederick
Experimental Investigation on Detonation Initiation Mechanism by Hot Jets ...... 3412 Lin Wei, Jin Zhou, Han Xu, Zhiyong Lin
Active Control of Fuel-Flexible Combustor Using Alternative Fuels...... 3424 Sammy Park, Kenneth Yu
An Evolution of the Premixed Flame Precipitated by Ultrasonic Standing Wave...... 3437 Jeong Soo Kim, Hang Seok Seo, Sang Shin Lee
Fuel Flexible Distributed Combustion for Gas Turbine Engines ...... 3444 Ahmed Khalil Hasan, Ashwani Gupta
Performance Assessment of a Gas Fired RQL Combustion System Operated in a Vitiated Air Stream ...... 3454 Vincent McDonell, Elliot Sullivan-Lewis, Richard Hack
A Low-Cost Optical Approach to Evaluate the Life Time of Hall Thruster Discharge Channel ...... 3470 Wensheng Huang, Alec Gallimore
Advanced Diagnostic Characterization of High-Power Hall Thruster Wear and Operation ...... 3486 George Williams Jr., George C. Soulas, Hani Kamhawi
Luminescence Measurements of the Kr+/Kr2+ + Kr Collision Systems ...... 3512 Benjamin Prince, Yu-Hui Chiu
Overview of the NASA Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project's Propulsion Technology Portfolio...... 3524 Kenneth Suder
Tip Vortex and Wake Characteristics of a Counterrotating Open Rotor ...... 3547 Dale Van Zante, Mark Wernet
NASA Environmentally Responsible Aviation High Overall Pressure Ratio Compressor Research - Pre-Test CFD ...... 3562 Mark Celestina, John Fabian, Sameer Kulkarni
Generation after Next Propulsor Research: Robust Design for Embedded Engine Systems ...... 3570 David Arend, Gregory Tillman, Walter O'Brien
Laser Assisted Combustion of Solid Propellant for a 100 mN Class Variable Thrust Rocket Motor ...... 3587 Akira Kakami, Akihiro Morita, Hamada Taketoshi, Shigeki Ishihara, Takeshi Tachibana
Ignition Transient of Dual-Thrust Solid Propellant Rocket Motors - A Review ...... 3593 V. R. Sanal Kumar, Raghunandan Basavanahalli
Analysis on Micro-Solid Propellant Motor's Size Effect...... 3616 Yijun Wang, Shipeng Li
Summary of the Development of a Demiseable Composite Overwrapped Hydrazine Tank for the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission from Concept to Delivery...... 3624 Robert Estes, James Harris, Nicholas Moore
Development and Implementation of a Process for Producing a Highly Wettable Aluminum PMD for the GPM Hydrazine Tank ...... 3692 Nicholas Moore, Robert Estes, P. W. Chow, A. F. Yue, N. W. Ferraro
Cryogenic Propellant Management during Ballistic Flight Phases ...... 3721 Philipp Behruzi, Jörg Klatte, Nicolas Fries, Gaston Netter, Thilo Kranz, Adriana Sirbi
Inverse Design of Supersonic Internal Flow Path Based on Given Outflow Velocity Profile...... 3735 Xingjun Fang, Kun Yuan Zhang
Volume 5
Numerical Investigation of Hypersonic Curved Shock Two-Dimensional Inlet Designed on the Wall Constant Mach Number Gradient ...... 3743 Lin Zhang, Kun Yuan Zhang, Lei Wang, Yuan Liu
Spacecraft Conceptual Design for Returning Entire Near-Earth Asteroids ...... 3752 John Brophy, Steven Oleson
Experimental Investigation of a Direct-Drive Hall Thruster and Solar Array System at Power Levels up to 10 kW ...... 3768 John Snyder, John Brophy, Richard Hofer, Dan Goebel, Ira Katz
A Misunderstood/Overlooked/Traditional/Useful Newly Discovered Force ...... 3792 Hsien-Lu Huang, Hui-Lien Peng Huang
Preliminary Study of a Novel Gas Turbine Combustor Concept based on Hydrogen Synthesis from Kerosene Reformation ...... 3806 Bhupendra Khandelwal, Kshitiz Agarwal, Adam Karakurt, Vishal Sethi, Riti Singh
Steady Operation of an FRC Thruster on Martian Atmosphere and Liquid Water Propellants...... 3815 David Kirtley, Anthony Pancotti, John Slough, Christopher Pihl
PRECISE - Development of a MEMS-based Monopropellant Micro Chemical Propulsion System ...... 3832 Markus Gauer, Dimitri Telitschkin, Ulrich Gotzig, Yann Battoneau, Hakan Johansson, Mikhail Ivanov, Phil Palmer, Remco J. Wiegerink
A Comparison of Candidate Seal Designs for Future Docking Systems...... 3841 Patrick Dunlap Jr., Bruce Steinetz
High Current Lanthanum Hexaboride Hollow Cathode for 20-to-100 kW Class Hall Thrusters...... 3857 Dan Goebel, Emily Chu
Development and Testing of High Current Hollow Cathodes for High Power Hall Thrusters...... 3868 Hani Kamhawi, Jonathan Van Noord
Insert Temperature Measurements of a 180A Hollow Cathode for the HiPER Project...... 3881 Michele Coletti, Stephen Gabriel
A T5 Hollow Cathode Thruster: Experimental Results and Modelling...... 3898 Daniele Frollani, Michele Coletti, Stephen Gabriel
Exploration of RF-Controlled High Current Density Hollow Cathode Concepts ...... 3909 Matthew Plasek, Benjamin Jorns, Edgar Choueiri, James Polk
The Effect of Unsteady Entropy on Combustion Instability ...... 3926 Eric Jacob, Gary Flandro, Tina M. Rice
Analysis of the Impact of Heat Losses on an Unstable Model Rocket-engine Combustor Using Large-Eddy Simulation...... 3935 Romain Garby, Laurent Selle, Thierry Poinsot
On the Sidewall Boundary Layer of Transverse Waves in Simulated Liquid Rocket Engines...... 3940 Charles Haddad, Joseph Majdalani
Coupling Behaviour of LOx/H2 Flames to Longitudinal and Transverse Acoustic Instabilities...... 3951 Justin Hardi, Scott K. Beinke, Michael Oschwald, Bassam Dally
Comparison Between Simulation and Measurement of Self-Excited Combustion Instability ...... 3969 Thomas Feldman, Matthew Harvazinski, Charles Merkle, William Anderson
Combustion of Blended Monopropellants ...... 3977 Anirudha Ambekar, Arindrajit Chowdhury
Quasi-1D Compressible Flow of Hydrocarbon Fuel...... 3991 Di Cheng, Xuejun Fan, Meng Yang
Supercritical Fuel Injection in Multi-Species Systems...... 4009 Arnab Roy, Corin Segal, Clément Joly
Combustion of JSC-1A Lunar Regolith Simulant Mixed with Magnesium ...... 4022 Francisco Álvarez, Christopher White, Armando Delgado, Jorge Frias, Ashvin Kumar Narayana Swamy, Evgeny Shafirovich
Heat Transfer and Film Effectiveness Study on a Pitchwise Curved Surface with Unsteady Wake Interaction ...... 4032 Matthew Golsen, Srikrishna Mahadevan, Barkin Kutlu, Jayanta Kapat
Ionization and Charge Exchange Reactions in Neutral Entrainment of a Field Reversed Configuration Thruster...... 4052 Jeremiah Brackbill, Jean-Luc Cambier, N. Gimelshein, Sergey Gimelshein, Andrew Ketsdever
Micro-Cathode Arc Thruster (µCAT) Performance and Thrust Vector Control ...... 4063 Tai Sen Zhuang, Alexey Shashurin, Michael Keidar, Dereck Chiu, George Teel
Regression Rate Characteristics of Paraffin-based Fuel under Swirled Oxidizer Flow ...... 4070 Ichiro Nakagawa, Keij Shinohara
A Numerical Study on the Regression Rate of Hybrid Rocket Motors Using a Combination of Enhancement Techniques...... 4076 Chidambaram Palani Kumar, Amit Kumar
Controlling Parameters for Fuel Regression Rate of Swirling-oxidizer-flow-type Hybrid Rocket Engine ...... 4088 Saburo Yuasa, Noriko Shiraishi, Kousuke Hirata
Effectiveness of Concave-convex Surface Grain for Hybrid Rocket Combustion...... 4099 Sakashi Hatagaki, Saburo Yuasa, Kousuke Hirata, Takashi Sakurai
The Effect of a Block on Flow Oscillations Near the Fuel Surface with Wall Blowing ...... 4106 Changjin Lee, Khin Oo Mon, Heeseok Koo
Development of a Chemical Kinetic Model to Describe the Endothermic Reforming of Logistical Fuels...... 4116 Julie Spero, John Leylegian
Analysis of Reduced Order Chemical Mechanisms for Oxygen-enriched Combustion of Methane and n-decane ...... 4127 Marcel Ilie, Muzammil Arshad
From Flamelet to Distributed/Broken Reaction Zone Regimes: Investigations Using the Linear Eddy Model...... 4140 Srikant Srinivasan, Suresh Menon
Fusion Hybrid Rocket for Moon Tourism...... 4155 Terry Kammash, Brice Cassenti
Mission Design Architecture for the Fusion Driven Rocket...... 4161 Anthony Pancotti, John Slough, David Kirtley, Micheal Pfaff, Christopher Pihl, George Votroubek
The Case and Development Path for Fusion Propulsion ...... 4171 Jason Cassibry, Ross Cortez, Milos Stanic, William Seidler II, Robert Adams, Geoff Statham, Leo Fabisinski
Plasma Potential and Langmuir Probe Measurements in the Near-field Plume of the NASA-300M Hall Thruster ...... 4206 Daniel Herman, Rohit Shastry, Wensheng Huang, George Soulas, Hani Kamhawi
A Performance and Plume Comparison of Xenon and Krypton Propellant on the SPT-100...... 4222 Michael Nakles, William Hargus Jr., Jorge Delgado, Ronald Corey
Hall Effect Thruster Plasma Plume Characterization with Probe Measurements and Self-Similar Fluid Models...... 4246 Käthe Dannenmayer, Stephane Mazouffre, Mario Merino, Eduardo Ahedo
Laser Thomson Scattering Measurements of Electron Temperature and Density in the Near-Field Plume of a Hall- Effect Thruster...... 4256 Robert Washeleski, Edmond Meyer, Lyon King
Ion Neutral Collision Analysis for a Well Characterized Plasma Experiment ...... 4273 Marlene Patino, Lauren Chu, Richard Wirz
Verification of Prediction Methods for Methane Heat Transfer Characteristics ...... 4285 Hideto Kawashima, Takeo Tomita, Kimito Obase, Hideyo Negishi, Takao Kaneko
An Experimental Investigation on the Heat Transfer Characteristics of Liquid Methane ...... 4297 Adrian Trejo, Chance Garcia, Ahsan Choudhuri
Flowfield and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Cooling Channel Flows in a Methane-Cooled Thrust Chamber...... 4304 Hideyo Negishi, Yu Daimon, Hideto Kawashima, Nobuhiro Yamanishi
Coupled Heat Transfer Analysis in Regeneratively Cooled Thrust Chambers ...... 4321 Barbara Betti, Marco Pizzarelli, Francesco Nasuti
Vaporization and Zonal Mixing in Performance Modeling of Advanced LOX-Methane Rockets...... 4333 George Williams Jr., Benjamin Stiegemeier
Spark Ignition Characteristics of a LO2/LCH4 Engine at Altitude Conditions...... 4354 Julie Kleinhenz, Charles Sarmiento, William Marshall
Experimental Study of Low Frequency Plasma for Liquid Oxygen and Methane Ignition ...... 4368 Taiichi Nagata, John Culbertson, Jose Torres, Eric Besnard
Low Ambient Pressure Injection and Consequences on Ignition of Liquid Rocket Engines...... 4373 Chiara Manfletti
Laser Ignition of a Research 200N RCS LOx/GH2 and LOx/GCH4 Engine ...... 4390 Chiara Manfletti
Development and Testing of a Methane/Oxygen Catalytic Microtube Ignition System for Rocket Propulsion ...... 4410 Matthew Deans, Steven Schneider
Valveless Detonation Concepts for Space Exploration...... 4429 Brandon Kan, Stephen Heister
Plain-Orifice Gelled Propellant Flow Characteristics with Rheological Hysteresis ...... 4449 C. Yoon, S. Heister, O. Campanella
Universal Subscale Fixed-Nozzle Burning Rate Analysis Tool ...... 4458 Matthew Hinkelman, Jessica Goldin
Experimental Study of Erosive and Dynamic Burning in Polybutadiene Based Composite Propellants ...... 4467 Andrew Rettenmaier, Stephen Heister
Optimization of Civil Turbofan with Evolutionary Algorithms ...... 4482 Lorenzo Casalino, Dario Pastrone
Off-Design Performances of a Gas Turbine Engine with Heat Recovery and Intercooling ...... 4493 Roberto Andriani, Fausto Gamma, Umberto Ghezzi
Large-Scale Transient Loading of a Three Stream Variable Cycle Engine ...... 4502 Michael Corbett
Highlights from a Mach 4 Experimental Demonstration of Inlet Mode Transition for Turbine Based Combined Cycle Hypersonic Propulsion ...... 4524 Lancert Foster, John Saunders Jr., Bobby Sanders, Lois Weir
A Framework for Simulating Turbine-based Combined Cycle Inlet Mode-transition Control ...... 4539 Dzu Le, Daniel Vrnak, John Slater, Emil Hessel
Shock Train Position Control in an Axisymmetric Scramjet Combustor Flowpath ...... 4550 Jeffrey Donbar
High-Speed Schlieren Analysis of Buzz in a Relaxed-Compression Supersonic Inlet ...... 4558 Thomas Herges, Gregory Elliott, J. Dutton
Quasi One-Dimensional Unsteady Modeling of External Compression Supersonic Inlets...... 4574 George Kopasakis, Joseph Connolly, Jonathan Kratz
Quantification of Convection Velocity and Dominant Scale of Large-Scale Structures by High-Speed Schlieren Imaging ...... 4586 Toshinori Kouchi, Goro Masuya
A Turbine Based Combined Cycle Engine Inlet Model and Mode Transition Simulation Based on HiTECC Tool...... 4597 Jeffrey Csank, Thomas Stueber
Real-time Unstart Prediction and Detection of Hypersonic Inlet Based on Recursive Fourier Transform ...... 4609 Juntao Chang, Lei Wang, Daren Yu, Wen Bao
Design of Hypersonic Inward Turning Inlets with Controllable Mach Number Distribution...... 4632 Yongzhou Li, Kun Yuan Zhang, Xiangjun Nan
A Systems Approach to Developing an Affordable Space Ground Transportation Architecture using a Commonality Approach...... 4640 Jerry Garcia, Carey M. McCleskey, Timothy R. Bollo, Russel E. Rhodes, John W. Robinson
Approach to an Affordable and Productive Space Transportation System ...... 4664 Carey McCleskey, Russel E. Rhodes, Roger A. Lepsch, Edward M. Henderson, John Robinson
Volume 6
Exploration and Space Habitation Public Support ...... 4698 William Knuth, John Robinson, Russel E. Rhodes, Edward M. Henderson
Affordability Advantages in Integrating the Aircraft and Space Launch Operations...... 4710 Douglas Thorpe, John Robinson, Russel E. Rhodes
Flow Instability Inception Model of Compressors based on Eigenvalue Theory...... 4722 Xiaohua Liu, Ruiwei Hou, Dakun Sun, Xiaofeng Sun
Application of Unsteady Vortex Lift in Turbomachinery ...... 4745 Lin Du, Xiaofeng Sun, Vigor Yang
Vane Clocking Effects on Stall Margin in a Multistage Compressor...... 4752 Natalie Smith, Nicole Key
Automated Nozzle Design through Axis-Symmetric Method of Characteristics Coupled with Chemical Kinetics ...... 4764 Reid Young, Roy Hartfield Jr.
Assessment and Benchmarking of the Extendible Nozzle Systems in the Liquid Propulsion ...... 4792 Massimo Ferlin
Numerical Investigation of Dual Bell Nozzle Flow Field...... 4823 Chloe Genin, Sebastian Karl, Ralf Stark, Dirk Schneider
Flame Stabilization Modes in Lean Premixed Swirl Stabilized Combustion ...... 4831 Daniel Foti, Suresh Menon
Numerical Studies on Combustion in a Film Cooled Semicryogenic Rocket Thrust Chamber ...... 4842 M. Jose Prakash, K. E. Reby Roy, T. S. Krishnakumar, G. Ramesh, J. C. Pisharady, P. Balachandran, Raju P. Thomas
Further Progress on a Kinetic Model Reduction Method for CFD Applications ...... 4851 John Leylegian, Vincent Tulino
Coupled Analysis of the Inlet and Fuel Systems of a Wave Rotor Constant-Volume Combustor...... 4868 Keith Smith, Mohamed Nalim
Thermodynamic Cycle Efficiency Enhancement in a Wave Disk Engine by Re-injection of Combusted Gas for Pre- compression...... 4895 Rohitashwa Kiran, Sameera Wijeyakulasuriya, Norbert Müller, Janusz Piechna
Fuel Proximity Effect on Hot-Jet Ignition in a Wave Rotor Constant Volume Combustor ...... 4920 Sameera Wijeyakulasuriya, Tarek Elharis, Mohamed Nalim
High Energy Spark Discharges for Ignition...... 4938 Jaecheol Kim, Brandon Sforzo, Jerry Seitzman, Jechiel Jagoda
Feasibility Study of Multi-objective Optimization of Subsystem Redundancy for Human-rated Launch Vehicle ...... 4950 Kaname Kawatsu, Yorichika Mihara, Naoki Tani, Nobuhiro Yamanishi, Koichi Okita
SPONGE: A Sounding Rocket Experiment for PMDs...... 4961 Marta Lazzarin, Nicolas Bellomo, Francesco Barato, Devis Paulon, Federico Moretto, Davide Rondini
Studies of Rotating Spoke Oscillations in Cylindrical Hall Thrusters ...... 4974 Yevgeny Raitses, Martin Griswold, Leland Ellison, Jeffrey Parker, Nathaniel Fisch
Low-frequency Azimuthal Stability Analysis of Hall Thrusters...... 4980 Diego Escobar, Eduardo Ahedo
Researches on Anomalous Electron Transportation in Hall Thruster Plasma ...... 4991 Sergey Oghienko, Volodimir Olendarev, Sergey Veryutin
In-Flight Operation of the Dawn Ion Propulsion System Through the Preparations For Escape From Vesta ...... 5000 Marc Rayman, Charles Garner, John R. Brophy, Steven C. Mikes
Plasma Diagnostics inside the ECR Ion Thruster µ 10 by Laser Absorption Spectroscopy with Optical Fiber Probes...... 5023 Ryudo Tsukizaki, Hiroyuki Koizumi, Kazutaka Nishiyama, Hitoshi Kuninaka
Speed-up for a PIC-MCC Disharge Chamber Plasma Computer Code...... 5033 Sudhakar Mahalingam, Yongjun Choi, John Loverich, Peter Stoltz, Bryan Penkel, James Menart
Electric Field Measurement of ECR Ion Thruster µ 10 with Optical Fiber Sensor ...... 5050 Toshiyuki Ise, Hiroyuki Koizumi, Kazutaka Nishiyama, Hitoshi Kuninaka
Current Density Measurements of an Annular-Geometry Ion Engine ...... 5058 Rohit Shastry, Michael Patterson, Daniel Herman, John Foster
Low Power RF Plasma Thruster Experimental Characterization ...... 5075 Daniele Pavarin, Andrea Lucca Fabris, Fabio Trezzolani, Marco Manente, Martina Faenza, Francesca Ferri, Antonio Selmo, Konstantinos Katsonis, Chloe Berenguer
Ion Current Distribution of ECR Microwave Discharge Neutralizer ...... 5090 Wataru Ohmichi, Hitoshi Kuninaka
Electron Dynamics in a Beating Electrostatic Wave Magnetic Null Thruster ...... 5096 Matthew Feldman, Edgar Choueiri
Experimental Characterization of Plasma Heating with Beating Electrostatic Waves...... 5107 Benjamin Jorns, Edgar Choueiri
Farfield Ion Current Density Measurements Before and After the NASA HiVHAc EDU2 Vibration Test...... 5121 Wensheng Huang, Hani Kamhawi, Rohit Shastry
Plasma Potential and Langmuir Probe Measurements in the Near-field Plume of the NASA-457Mv2 Hall Thruster ...... 5134 Rohit Shastry, Wensheng Huang, Daniel Herman, George Soulas, Hani Kamhawi
Comparison of Numerical and Experimental Time-Resolved Near-Field Hall Thruster Plasma Properties...... 5150 Ashley Gonzales, Michelle Scharfe, William Hargus Jr., Justin W. Koo
Initial Experimental Investigations of Self-Pressurizing Propellant Dynamics ...... 5167 Jonah Zimmerman, Brian Cantwell, Greg Zilliac
Development and Testing of the Regeneratively Cooled Multiple Use Plug Hybrid (for) Nanosats (MUPHyN) Motor ...... 5190 Shannon Eilers, Stephen A. Whitmore, Zachary Peterson
Closed-Loop Thrust and Pressure Profile Throttling of a Nitrous-Oxide HTPB Hybrid Rocket Motor ...... 5215 Zachary Peterson, Shannon Eilers, Stephen Whitmore
Nitrous Oxide Cooled, Reusable Hybrid Aerospike Rocket Motor: Experimental Results ...... 5257 Patrick Lemieux, William R. Murray
Design Trade-offs for Hybrid Rocket Motors ...... 5275 Lorenzo Casalino, Dario Pastrone, Francesca Letizia
Application of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition to Light Intensity Measurements of Combustion Instability ...... 5291 Matthew Wierman, W. Z. Hallum, Brian Pomeroy, William Anderson, Thomas Feldman
Propellant Throttling Effects on Self-pulsation of Liquid Rocket Swirl-coaxial Injection...... 5302 Chad Eberhart, David Lineberry, Robert Frederick Jr.
Effect of Step Height on Level of Combustion Instability in a Subscale Transverse Rocket Combustor...... 5326 Matthew Wierman, Collin Morgan, William Anderson
Acoustic Structure and Damping Estimation of a Cylindrical Rocket Chamber During Oscillation ...... 5334 Taro Shimizu, Dan Hori, Yu Daimon
Development of a Small Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Flight Demonstrator Concept that Is Scalable to Human Missions ...... 5345 Claude Joyner, Daniel Levack, Stanley Borowski
Impact and Options for Human Mars Missions Departing from 1000km...... 5360 Melvin Bulman, Victor Collarzo-Perez, Daniel Brasuell
Near Earth Asteroid Human Mission Possibilities Using Nuclear Thermal Rocket (NTR) Propulsion ...... 5369 Stanley Borowski, David McCurdy, Thomas Packard
Analysis of VEGA Solid Stages Static Firing Tests towards the Maiden Flight ...... 5390 Enrico Cavallini, Bernando Favini, Maurizio Di Giacinto, Ferruccio Serraglia
Solid Propulsion Systems for Epsilon Launch Vehicle...... 5407 Shinichiro Tokudome, Hiroto Habu, Kyohichi Ui, Fumio Shimizu, Yusaku Yachi, Naruhisa Sano
Technological and Programmatic Development of Zefiro 40 Solid Rocket Motor...... 5414 Marcello Angelone, Flavia Mascanzoni, Claudio Milana
Evolving Swarm-A Genetically Modified Particle Swarm Optimizer with Localized Pattern Search Capability for Aerospace Propulsion Systems...... 5422 Roy Hartfield, Kevin Albarado, Rhonald Jenkins
SRM Simulation Using the Level Set Method and Higher Order Integration Schemes ...... 5439 Kevin Albarado, Andrew Shelton, Roy Hartfield
Rocstar Simulation Suite: An Advanced 3-D Multiphysics, Multiscale Computational Framework for Tightly Coupled, Fluid-Structure-Thermal Applications ...... 5459 Mark Brandyberry, Fady Najjar, Thomas Jackson, William Dick, Bono Wasistho, Dustin Schwenk, Michael Campbell
Application of the Narrowband Correlated-k Method to Numerical Simulation of Nonscattering Exhaust Plume IR Emissions...... 5476 Alexander Sventitskiy, Christian Mundt
CFD Validation Study for Internal Performance of Advanced SERN Configurations...... 5489 Alexandra Baucco, Kevin Shanley, Dwayne Bevis
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Mixer-Ejector Analysis and Design ...... 5517 Eric Hendricks, Jonathan Seidel
Overview of Propulsion Controls and Diagnostics Research at NASA Glenn ...... 5532 Sanjay Garg
Model-Based Control of an Aircraft Engine Using an Optimal Tuner Approach...... 5555 Joseph Connolly, Sanjay Garg, Amy Chicatelli
Fixed Dynamic Method for Transient-State Optimal Control Law Design of Aircraft Engine...... 5569 Yingqing Guo, Lei Wang, Jun Lu, Junfeng Wu
Improved Hybrid Kalman Filter for In-flight Aircraft Engine Performance Estimation ...... 5578 Yingqing Guo, Jun Lu, Shugang Zhang
SFMDF in US3D for LES of Compressible Flows on Unstructured Meshes...... 5587 Collin Otis, Pietro Ferrero, Graham Candler, Peyman Givi
Large Eddy Simulation of the HyShot II Scramjet Combustor Using a Supersonic Flamelet Model (Invited)...... 5598 Johan Larsson
Large Eddy/Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Simulations of Scramjet Combustor Flow Fields (Invited)...... 5608 Jack Edwards, Amarnatha Potturi, Jesse A. Fulton
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Low-Dissipation Advection Schemes Designed for Large Eddy Simulations of Hypersonic Propulsion Systems ...... 5633 Jeffery White, R. Baurle, T. Fisher, J. Quinlan, W. Black
Progress Toward Affordable High Fidelity Combustion Simulations Using Filtered Density Functions for Hypersonic Flows in Complex Geometries (Invited)...... 5674 Tomasz Drozda, Jesse R. Quinlan, Patrick H. Pisciuneri, S. Levent Yilmaz
Study of Novel Micromix Combustors to be used in Gas Turbines; Using Hydrogen, Hydrogen-Methane, Methane and Kerosene as a Fuel ...... 5690 Bhupendra Khandelwal, Adam Karakurt, Vishal Sethi, Riti Singh
Viscous Losses of MNG in Hybrid Motor Tests...... 5703 Daniel Chasman, Stephen Haight, Richard Loehr
A Review of Hydrogen as a Fuel for Future Air Transport ...... 5725 Bhupendra Khandelwal, Paulas R. Sekaran, Adam Karakurt, Vishal Sethi, Riti Singh
Design and Selection Process for Optimized Heavy Lift Launch Vehicles ...... 5737 Paul Ritter, James Evans Lyne
Mission Applications of the MRS-142 CubeSat High-Impulse Adaptable Monopropellant Propulsion System (CHAMPS) ...... 5752 Derek Schmuland, Christian Carpenter, Robert K. Masse
Computational Modeling of Discrete-Jet Lean-Direct Injectors...... 5761 Kumud Ajmani, Kevin J. Breisacher
Experimental Measurements in Reactive and Non-Reactive Turbulent Flows...... 5774 Florin Florean, Andreea Petcu, Ionut Porumbel, Cristian Carlanescu, Cornel Sandu, Gheorghe Dumitrascu
Emissions Prediction for Aircraft Conceptual Design ...... 5786 Russell Denney, Jimmy Tai, Dimitri Mavris
Magnetic Nozzle Plasma Plume: Review of Crucial Physical Phenomena ...... 5798 Frans Ebersohn, Sharath Girimaji, John Shebalin, David Staack, Benjamin Longmier, Chris Olsen
Experimental Investigation of the Current Density in the Discharge Plasma of ADD SIMP-LEX...... 5810 M. Lau, Sebastian Manna, Georg Herdrich, Tony Schönherr, Kimiya Komurasaki
Steady-State, Applied-Field, Rectangular Magnetoplasmadynamics Thruster Using Hollow Cathode ...... 5829 Akihiro Sasoh, Daisuke Ichihara, Tomohito Enoki, Shigeru Yokota
Results of Experimental Studies on Thorium Migration in Electric Thrusters ...... 5835 Douglas Codron, Daniel Erwin, Keith Goodfellow
Influence of Propellant in the Discharge Process of PPT...... 5850 Tony Schönherr, Yoshifumi Abe, Kohei Okamura, Hiroyuki Koizumi, Yoshihiro Arakawa, Kimiya Komurasaki
A Micro PPT for Nano-satellite Applications: Design and Experimental Results...... 5859 Aloha Mingo Perez, Michele Coletti, Stephen Gabriel
Numerical Simulation of a Water Propellant Pulsed Plasma Thruster ...... 5867 Siyu Wang, Zhiwen Wu, Xiangyang Liu, Lei Yang, Yue Cheng, Ningfei Wang
Plasma Behavior Analysis of a Laser-Assisted Pulsed Plasma Thruster ...... 5876 Haruki Kobayashi, Hideyuki Horisawa, Ikkoh Funaki
Demonstration of Sub-system Level Simulations: A Coupled Inlet and Turbofan Stage ...... 5891 Robert Webster, Kidambi Sreenivas, Daniel Hyams, Bruce Hilbert, W. Briley, David Whitfield
Progress in Boundary Layer Ingesting Embedded Engine Research...... 5906 Anthony Ferrar, Walter O'Brien
AEDC/UTSI J85 Turbojet Test Stands...... 5929 Robert Baltz, Gregg R. Beitel, Nickolas Galyen, Trevor Moeller, Maurice May
Vortex Shedding of Various Bluff Bodies in Cross Flow ...... 5939 Christopher Ruscher, John Dannenhoffer III, Mark Glauser, Barry Kiel, Balu Sekar
Propulsion Analysis of Demeter Microsatellite Fluidic Passivation ...... 5950 Guillaume Boudier, N. Merat
Brayton Cycle Conversion for Space Solar Power ...... 5963 Brendan Dessanti, Narayanan Komerath
NASA in-Space Propulsion Technologies and Their Infusion Potential ...... 5973 David Anderson, Eric Pencil, Todd Peterson, John Dankanich, Daniel Vento, Michelle Munk, Louis Glaab
Progress Toward Demonstration of Remote, Autonomous Attitude Control of a CubeSat Using Ion Electrospray Propulsion Systems...... 5990 Louis Perna, Paulo Lozano, Fernando Mier Hicks, Chase S. Coffman, Hanqing Li
Modeling of an Ionic Liquid Electrospray using Molecular Dynamics Model...... 6000 Arnaud Borner, Zheng Li, Deborah Levin
Cesium Exposure Test of the Colloid Micro-Newton Thruster for the LISA Pathfinder Mission ...... 6013 John Anderson, John Ziemer, Alexandra Bulit
Prediction of Liquid Slosh Damping Using a High Resolution CFD Tool ...... 6035 Hong Yang, Ravi Purandare, John Peugeot, Jeff West
Investigation on Pressure Change Induced by Cryogenic Sloshing...... 6049 Takehiro Himeno, Katsutoshi Ishikawa, Yutaka Umemura, Chihiro Inoue, Toshinori Watanabe, Satoshi Nonaka, Yoshihiro Naruo, Yoshifumi Inatani, Kiyoshi Kinefuchi, Daizo Sugimori, Koichi Okita
EUCLID Mission: Theoretical Sloshing Model and CFD Comparison ...... 6065 Marta Lazzarin, Mattia Biolo, Alberto Bettella, Roberto Da Forno
Design of an Experimental Platform for Acquisition of Liquid Slosh Data aboard the International Space Station ...... 6086 Sunil Chintalapati, Charles A. Holicker, Richard E. Schulman, Esteban Contreras, Hector M. Gutierrez, Daniel Kirk
Two-phase Flow Modeling Combining the CICSAM with the Projection Method ...... 6103 Markus Gauer, Markus Lambert, Roland Kessler, Klaus Hannemann
Progress in Magnetohydrodynamic and Particle Simulations of Magnetoplasma Sail...... 6113 Ikkoh Funaki, Yoshihiro Kajimura, Hiroyuki Nishida, Yasumasa Ashida, Hiroshi Yamakawa, Iku Shinohara, Yoshiki Yamagiwa
Laser Ablation Thrusters for Atmospheric Flight Applications...... 6124 Keiji Hagiwara, Hideyuki Horisawa, Kota Fukuda
Current Collection Experiment of Bare Electrodynamic Tape Tether by Using Sounding Rocket ...... 6134 Yoshiki Yamagiwa, Akeru Takagi, Naoyoshi Yoshimura, Makoto Matsui, Koji Tanaka, Takumi Abe, Hironori Sahara, Hironori Fujii
The "Vortex Reloaded" Project: Experimental Investigation on Fully Tangential Vortex Injection in N2O - Paraffin Hybrid Motors...... 6145 Nicolas Bellomo, Francesco Barato, Martina Faenza, Alberto Bettella, Daniele Pavarin, A. Selmo
Catalytic Decomposition of Nitrous Oxide Monopropellant for Hybrid Motor Re-Ignition...... 6172 Matthew Wilson, Shannon Eilers, Stephen Whitmore
Nuclear Thermal Rocket Element Environmental Simulator (NTREES) Upgrade Activities...... 6186 William Emrich Jr., Robert P. Moran, J. Boise Pearson
Affordable Development of a Nuclear Cryogenic Propulsion Stage...... 6192 Michael Houts, Stanley Borowski, Jeffrey George, Tony Kim, William Emrich, Robert Hickman, Jeramie Broadway, H. Gerrish, R. B. Adams
Evaluation of Polyurethane Binder Additivated with Paraffin and Tested with a Swirl Injector...... 6203 Susane Gomes, Leopoldo Rocco Jr., Jose Rocco, Koshun Iha
Design and Development of a Thrust Vector Controlled Paraffin/Nytrox Hybrid Rocket...... 6211 Laura Simurda, Adrien Boiron, Katrina Hornstein, Keith Stober, Elizabeth Jens, Alex Fletcher
Nammo Hybrid Rocket Propulsion TRL Improvement Program...... N/A Jan Erik Ronningen, Johanne Husdal, Morten Berger, Roy Vesterås, Geir Raudsandmoen
The Phoenix Hybrid Sounding Rocket Program: A Progress Report 2012...... 6225 Michael Brooks, Jean Pitot, Bernard Genevieve, Seffat Chowdhury, Kirsty Veale, Lance Roberts
One Dimensional Hybrid-Vlasov Simulation of a Hall Thruster...... 6239 Kentaro Hara, Iain Boyd, Vladimir Kolobov
Modeling the Effects of Discharge Voltage on Hall Thruster Performance ...... 6253 Aysegul Yilmaz
Characterization of CAMILA Hall Thruster Discharge using Electrical Probe Measurements ...... 6256 Igal Kronhaus, Alexander Kapulkin, Vladimir Balabanov, Maksim Rubanovich, Mauricio Guelman, Benveniste Natan
Investigation of Singly Ionized Iodine Spectroscopy in Support of Electrostatic Propulsion Diagnostics Development...... 6273 William Hargus Jr., Jordan Lubkeman, Kahli Remy, Ashley Gonzales
Coupled CFD Analysis of Thermochemical Erosion and Unsteady Heat Conduction in Solid Rocket Nozzles ...... 6284 Daniele Bianchi, Alessandro Turchi, Francesco Nasuti, Marcello Onofri
Investigation of the Effect of Gelling Agents on Dicyclopentadiene's Rheological Characteristics for Improvement of Composite Solid Propellant Quality...... 6299 Patrick O'Neil, Stephen Heister
Evaluation of Ballistic and Mechanical Properties of Polymerized-Dicyclopentadiene-Based Composite Solid Propellants...... 6311 Patrick O'Neil, Stephen Heister
Experimental Evaluation of Processing and Aging Characteristics of Polymerized Dicyclopentadiene for Use as a Composite Solid Propellant Binder ...... 6324 Patrick O'Neil, Stephen Heister
Research on NEPE Solid Rocket Motor Grain Storage Damage...... 6335 Qing-Ya Zhang, Hong-Yu Xie, Hai-Liang Ma, Xiang Feng, Zhi-Yu Zhang
Simulation of Reacting Spray in a Multi-Point Lean Direct Injection Combustor ...... 6343 Dipanjay Dewanji, Arvind Gangoli Rao, Mathieu Pourquie, Jos Van Buijtenen
Critical Ignition Criteria for Monomethylhydrazine and Red Fuming Nitric Acid in an Impinging Jet Apparatus...... 6362 Jacob Dennis, Timothee Pourpoint, Steven Son
Experimental Investigation of Atomization and Combustion of Organic Gel Propellant ...... 6376 Songjiang Feng, Bo He, Haobo He, Lingyu Su, Zhiyong Hou, Wansheng Nie
Comparison of CFD Predictions and Experimental Measurements of Liquid Jet Injection into a Vitiated Crossflow...... 6381 Christopher Brown, Ulises Mondragon, Vincent McDonell, B. V. Kiel
High-Fidelity Numercial Simulations of Impinging Jet Atomization...... 6396 Xiaodong Chen, Vigor Yang, Dongjun Ma
The SDO Propulsion Subsystem ...... 6414 William Willis
LRO Propulsion System Design & On-Orbit Operations...... 6436 Mark Fiebig, Charles Zakrzwski
LRO Propulsion System Testing...... 6451 Mark Fiebig, Charles Zakrzwski
Design, Fabrication, and Testing of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes Propulsion Systems...... 6476 Stewart Bushman
Flight Performance of the MESSENGER Propulsion System from Launch to Orbit Insertion...... 6491 Marc Wilson, Carl Engelbrecht, Michael Trela
Development and Testing Status of the Vinci Thrust Chamber ...... 6514 Dietrich Haeseler, Frank Haidinger, Ludwig Brummer, Juergen Haeberle, P. Luger
A New State-of-The-Art in AF-M315E Thruster Technologies ...... 6529 Robert K. Masse, Ronald A. Spores, J. A. Overly, M. Y. Allen
Performance of a Helicon Hall Thruster Operating with Xenon, Argon, and Nitrogen...... 6537 Adam Shabselowitz, Alec Gallimore, Peter Peterson
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