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Optimization Of Mixing Efficiency In Low Reynolds Unlike Doublet Injectors By Incorporating Swirl, Samuel Braggins Ligon

Graduate College Dissertations and Theses

One of the largest issues concerning industrial cube satellite manufacturing is the development of propulsion systems at extremely small scales. Bipropellant cube satellite propulsion systems face challenges associated with the mixing of two fluids which operate in low Reynolds number environments. Low Reynolds, or laminar, fluid flow is unique to cube satellite injection systems because of their unprecedented small scale. This work is intended to both test the validity of a proposed cube satellite injection system, and to test the accuracy of numerical method approaches to solving the problem of laminar flow mixing in such devices. The proposed injector is …