Various energetic materials, including solid rocket propellants, have found numerous
applications in aerospace technology in the past decades. This growing interest initiated an …

HTPB/paraffin fuels exhibit high regression rates and excellent mechanical properties due to
the droplet entrainment and enhancement of the HTPB matrix, however, the special structure …

The dynamic mixing combustion characteristics in variable thrust hybrid rocket motors
(HRMs) have been investigated by using a newly developed two-dimensional transient …

A novel model for estimating the regression rate of HTPB/paraffin fuels was developed in
this work. The factors considered included the microscopic physical structure of paraffin …

This study presents an imaging-based deep learning tool to measure the fuel regression
rate in a 2D slab burner experiment for hybrid rocket fuels. The slab burner experiment is …

Marxman theory is often used for developing correlations of fuel regression rate for hybrid
rocket motor analysis. Effects of radiation are accounted for in this theory as a perturbation to …

A laser absorption tomography (LAT) technique was developed for investigating the
thermochemical structure of a solid fuel oxidation layer in a hybrid rocket geometry. The …

Hybrid rocket motors (HRMs) easily achieve variable thrust by changing oxidizer mass flow
rate. This paper represents numerical and experimental studies on the throttleable HRM with …

Liquefying paraffin-based fuels have long been recognized in the hybrid rocket community
as a possible solution to the low regression rate issues associated with traditional hybrid …

Combustion characteristics of a rapid mixed swirl torch igniter of CH 4/O 2 for hybrid rocket
motors has been experimentally investigated. The igniter torch consists of four tangential …