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Experimental Investigation Of Cryogenic Convection And Boiling In Traditionally And Additively Manufactured Rocket Engine Cooling Channels, Armando Sandoval Jan 2017

Experimental Investigation Of Cryogenic Convection And Boiling In Traditionally And Additively Manufactured Rocket Engine Cooling Channels, Armando Sandoval

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

The Center for Space Exploration and Technology Research at the University of Texas at El Paso, has designed, built, and optimized an experimental high heat flux test facility to investigate the heat transfer coefficient of liquid methane and other cryogenic propellants for regenerative cooled rocket engine design. The system is composed of a copper conduction based thermal concentrator that delivers heat flow into a single sub-scaled cooling channel (test article). This study focuses on optimizing this design of the high heat flux test facility to develop a more accurate method for measuring the conductive heat flow going into the cooling …