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Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne solves your toughest engineering problems.
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has the experience to design, test and analyze a broad variety of combustion and fluid flow systems. We have demonstrated a track record of applying our tools to new, innovative combustor concepts and adapting these tools to successfully analyze and capture the physics within.
Example
High Energy Propellants and Detonation
The need for packaging high energy density in a small volume leads to operation with highly energetic combustion propellants, such as hypergolics. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Extreme Engineers are well versed in the safe testing and design application of these systems, having designed small rocket thrusters with hypergolic propellants since the days of Apollo. In addition, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne maintains the capability to predict hazard analysis and high-speed deflagrations and detonations for many applications.
Features
- • High-fidelity, multidimensional and engineering analysis of combustion
- • Mixing of supercritical and subcritical fluids (LOX, air, hydrogen and gaseous and blended heavy liquid hydrocarbon mixtures)
- • Detonation, combustion and flame stability analysis
- • Analysis of hypergolic propellants (e.g., monomethylhydrazine, nitrogen tetroxide)
- • Spray combustion
- • Supersonic combustion and high-speed nozzle/plume flow
- • Special heat transfer CFD analysis (conjugate heat transfer and radiation prediction)
- • Flows with moving and deforming boundaries
- • Acoustics, combustion dynamics
- • Design and test of combustion, flow and heat transfer systems