scholarly journals A New Approach to Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of Solid Propulsion System Including Heat Transfer and Ablative Cooling

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amirhossein Adami ◽  
Mahdi Mortazavi ◽  
Mehran Nosratollahi
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 156-170
Author(s):  
Amirhossein Adami ◽  
Mahda Mortazavi ◽  
Mehran Nosratollahi

Purpose – For complex engineering problems, multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) techniques use some disciplines that need to be run several times in different modules. In addition, mathematical modeling of a discipline can be improved for each module. The purpose of this paper is to show that multi-modular design optimization (MMO) improves the design performances in comparison with MDO technique for complex systems. Design/methodology/approach – MDO framework and MMO framework are developed to optimum design of a complex system. The nonlinear equality and inequality constrains are considered. The system optimizers included Genetic Algorithm and Sequential Quadratic Programming. Findings – As shown, fewer design variables (optimization variables) are needed at the system level for MMO. Unshared variables are optimized in the related module when shared variables are optimized at the system level. The results of this research show that MMO has lower elapsed times (14 percent) with lower F-count (16 percent). Practical implications – The monopropellant propulsion upper-stage is selected as a case study. In this paper, the efficient model of the monopropellant propulsion system is proposed. According to the results, the proposed model has acceptable accuracy in mass model (error < 2 percent), performance estimation (error < 6 percent) and geometry estimation (error < 10 percent). Originality/value – The monopropellant propulsion system is broken down into the three important modules including propellant tank (tank and propellant), pressurized feeding (tank and gas) and thruster (catalyst, nozzle and catalysts bed) when chemical decomposition, aerothermodynamics, mass and configuration, catalyst and structure have been considered as the disciplines. The both MMO and MDO frameworks are developed for the monopropellant propulsion system.


2013 ◽  
Vol 423-426 ◽  
pp. 1693-1699
Author(s):  
Sheng Zhong Xu ◽  
Xiang Jun Fang ◽  
Zhao Yin

The genetic algorithm was employed to Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of transonic internally cooled turbine blades based on the conjugate heat transfer (CHT) method. Firstly, a parametric modeling method was employed to model the internal-cooled blade.Comparison of the SST turbulence model with and withoutγ-θtransition model was conducted, and the influence and reason between turbulent region and heat transfer distribution was analyzed.The result shows that separation appeared after middle region of the suction surface, because of the pressure after shock wave decrease abruptly that reduce adverse pressure gradient resistance capacity of laminar flow, it leads to instability and transition, and then enter a state of turbulence, same to the heat transfer coefficient with the phenomenon of abrupt increase that impact the temperature distribution, consequently SST model with γ-θ transition is better to showcase the change of aerodynamic and heat transfer in the transition region; Then,comparing the cooling effectiveness with different number cooling holes of internal-cooled blade , four cooling channels case was the best choice in consideration of the cooling effectiveness and the manufacturing process and the cost of the blade; In the end, Automatic optimization process was set up ,andseveral optimization frameworks were achieved. With the cooling flow increase in 0.011849 kg/s, average temperature and maximum temperature were reduced by 4.92% and 1.55% respectively in the boundary conditionsoptimization, in addition to optimized the cooling flow and the cooling effectiveness, temperature distribution in the part of contrastive analysis of turbulence model was verifiable, Simultaneously it is important guiding significance for the geometry parameters optimization.


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