zburnt
Active Member
Over the past few days I have been getting started with general planning for a liquid rocket engine. I made a previous post about this and I received a lot of good input. That said, I have seen a lot of people confused about that post because my initial goals were completely different then the goals I came to at the end. So, this post is about a more specific plan.
The current plan is an engine fueled with either kerosene or methyl alcohol. The oxidizer will be gaseous O2. I will use compressed N2 to pressurize the liquid. This engine will only be static fired, and it will never fly. I will hopefully make a flyable engine much later, but that isn't the point of this post. I am doing some basic calculations with methyl alcohol as fuel from this site. After I have done this I will move on to plan from Sutton. Once I have a reasonable design I will look into CAD and simulations. My general design, at least to start, is following the design on the site. If you have any insight I would greatly appreciate it and if you have any questions I will do my best to answer. Thanks.
The current plan is an engine fueled with either kerosene or methyl alcohol. The oxidizer will be gaseous O2. I will use compressed N2 to pressurize the liquid. This engine will only be static fired, and it will never fly. I will hopefully make a flyable engine much later, but that isn't the point of this post. I am doing some basic calculations with methyl alcohol as fuel from this site. After I have done this I will move on to plan from Sutton. Once I have a reasonable design I will look into CAD and simulations. My general design, at least to start, is following the design on the site. If you have any insight I would greatly appreciate it and if you have any questions I will do my best to answer. Thanks.