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Space Propulsion
Liquid propellant rocket engine technologies
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Oskar J. Haidn
Phone +49.89.289.16138
Contact
n The Space Propulsion Group has put its emphasis from the beginning on
experimental activities around different aspects of injection, ignition, com-
bustion, heat transfer and cooling in oxygen/methane model combustors
operating at various propellant temperatures, combustion chamber pres-
sures, mixture ratios and injector boundary conditions. Since 2014, these
experimental activities have been accompanied by a second working group
which has its main focus on modeling and simulation in all areas of liquid
propellant rocket engine technologies and in 2015 liquid oxygen turbo-pump
and turbine technologies were added as the most recent research areas.
Only recently, the group has been awarded a project on methane/oxygen
combustion research funded by the ‘Bayerische Forschungsstiftung’.
ARIANE 5 start VA 233.
Photo: ESA
Multi-injector combustor: combustion response for the cases of a) flame reattachment and b) totally lifted flames
funded projects: ‘Experimental Inves-
tigations for Lifetime Predictions’ and
‘Experimental and Numerical Investigation
of Combustion and Heat Transfer in Thrust
Chambers’.
Rocket Propulsion
With the SFB TR40, ‘Fundamental Tech-
nologies for the Development of Future
Space-Transport-System Components
under High Thermal and Mechanical
Loads’ being extended into a third period,
the Space Propulsion group now has two