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Advanced Injector Designs for Hydrocarbon Liquid Rocket Engine Components

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA8650-04-C-2513
Agency Tracking Number: O031-0163
Amount: $857,986.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: OSD03-010
Solicitation Number: 2003.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2003
Award Year: 2004
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2004-08-09
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2006-08-09
Small Business Information
603 East Robinson Street Suite 7
Carson City, NV 89701
United States
DUNS: 006620553
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Jeffrey Muss
 Senior Engineer
 (916) 363-6161
 jmuss@sierraengineering.com
Business Contact
 Curtis Johnson
Title: President
Phone: (775) 885-0139
Email: cwj@sierraengineering.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Combustion instability is one of the greatest development risks for liquid propellant engines. In developing a stable injector design, the risks arise from a variety of sources - limited modeling capabilities, poor scalability and the high cost of appropriate component test facilities. Sierra Engineering Inc. believes that much of the empirical data on the injection element's driving characteristics can be obtained using a single full-sized injection element in combustion chamber of the same diameter as the full-scale chamber. Our proposed Phase II validation effort covers the critical design, fabrication and testing of a single-element stability tester. Test data, generated in relevant operating environments, will be used to anchor stability model inputs, thereby limiting extrapolation while applying the models to large-scale engines.

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