Joaquin Castro

HSABP TC Chair
2010-12
HighSpeed Times
Newsletter of the AIAA High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee
No. 2, Issue 2 July 2011
This issue
Vision from the Chair p.3
Large Eddy Simulation Studies in Italy p 5
Awards & Honors p. 7-8
Fundamental Aeronautics Review p.9
In the Spotlight p.10-11
Engine Design: A New Course p.12
TriJet: Aerojets TBCC Concept p.13
AIAA HSABP TC NEWSLETTER No. 2, Issue 2 July 2011
AIAA High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee (HSABPTC),
bringing together experts in the field who are dedicated to promoting its science
and technology through education and dissemination of scientific ideas.
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https://info.aiaa.org/tac/PEG/HSABPTC/default.aspx
HSABP TC Membership
Vision from the Chair
Joaquin Castro
AIAA High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee
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The heat of summer has a grip on the country, and as it is JPC time again, most of us are looking
forward to a week of cool Southern California weather. JPC gives us an opportunity to share our work
with colleagues, make new friends and refresh acquaintances with old friends.
Our High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion technology community continues to make progress
towards maturation into operational systems. Our members continue to further the understanding of
the physics that affect high speed flight and evolve our analytical tools. Our newsletter covers
examples of both domestic and international efforts in this area. Look in pages 5 and 6 for some
excellent work on Large Eddie Simulations in high speed flows being done in Italy by HSABP TC
international members Antonella Ingenito and Claudio Bruno. In page 13, Dora Musielak, our HSABP
TC Communications Subcommittee Chair and Newsletter Editor, provides an excellent summary of the
TriJet, an Aerojet high speed combined cycle propulsion concept.
Look under the Spotlight section of our Newsletter for the Air Breathing Propulsion Award
winners in both Industry and Academia for 2011,as well as our best HSPABP TC Paper Award. At JPC,
take the opportunity to meet, congratulate and share ideas with these deserving members or our
community.
The X-51A Dual Mode Ram Jet (DMRJ) had its second flight last month and, as reported by the
media, did not complete its mission successfully, as it encountered some difficulties during the DMRJ
start transient. The program team is busy reviewing the copious amounts of data collected during the
flight, and I trust it will fly again soon, better for the lessons learned and the understanding gained by
the experience. See, I believe that we learn more when we experience challenges than when
everything works as planned; after all, that is why we call it technology development
Finally, our nation is experiencing some unsettling fiscal challenges, and the resulting shock
waves (no pun intended) are affecting the funding for many of our programs. These challenges can
create new prospects. It is now more important that we take the opportunity to share the benefits of
our technology with our constituencies. As AIAA and HSABP TC members, you are a leader in our
Industry, and you should help explain the contributions and benefits that high speed propulsion
systems can bring to our military, to civil transportation, and to access to space. You should help
explain the related benefits that the gained understanding in physics, simulation, analysis, materials,
and systems engineering can also bring to the average individual and society.
As engineers, we often tend to speak in technical terms that are not always fully understood by
those with differing backgrounds and interests. When you share the message of the benefits of our
technology, know your audience. Share your message in terms that your audience can relate to, make
sure they understand and instill in them the same passion you have for this great work we do and its
benefits for mankind.
The future is ours to shape, see you in San Diego!
As part of our commitment to support AIAA and STEM education, Dora Musielak
represented the HSABPTC as a judge and session chair at the 2011 AIAA Region IV
Student Conference, which was held on April 30, 2011 in Arlington, Texas.
This conference for undergraduate and graduate students provides a unique forum for
future professionals to present their research work outside the classroom and also a
valuable networking opportunity to meet fellow students and potential employers.
Students came from universities in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas. Faculty,
engineers and other professionals from NASA, Lockheed Martin and local aerospace
industry were also in attendance.
The technical papers and the oral presentations of the students are judged for their
technical merit and delivery. The students compete either as individuals or as a team.
Judging these competitions was extremely difficult because of the quality of the papers in
the competition and also because the students come prepared, making outstanding oral
presentations. Some even brought prototypes of the hardware that they designed and
built.
Each first place winner received a $500 and an invitation to the AIAA Foundation
International Student Conference, to be held in conjunction with the 50th AIAA
Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 912, 2012, at the Gaylord Opryland Resort,
Nashville, Tenn., where students will compete for a prize of $1,000.
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and propulsion community is through AIAAs LinkedIn group. The group, available only to active AIAA
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Liaison Sub Committee Activities
Balu Sekar
HSABPTC Liaison
Welcome New Members!
Antonella Ingenito University of Rome Jeff Dalton Avetec, Inc.
Bradley Leland Lockheed Martin Jeff White NASA Langley
Daniel Macinnis Raytheon Kristen Roberts Lockheed Martin
Gillian Bussey University of Maryland Orval Rusty Powell Kirtland AFB
By Antonella Ingenito - AIAA HSABPTC International Member
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Figure 2. Tilting of span-wise vorticity
on planes parallel to the main direction
of motion.
Figure 1. Average vorticity on parallel
planes for injectors of the HyShot II
combustor
In Europe, many research groups are working in high speed air-
breathing propulsion under research contracts sponsored by
national agencies, the European Space Agency and by other
organizations. Several groups are conducting numerical and
experimental investigations of supersonic combustion. In fact,
in spite of the large body of research to date on supersonic
combustion, some issues remain to be resolved. For example,
mixing of fuel and air, high speed chemical reaction, and the
coupling between turbulence, compressibility and combustion
are topics that remain open for investigation. Researchers under
the direction of Professor C. Bruno at the University of Rome are
conducting computational simulation studies to advance our
understanding of combustion physics.
A recent Large Eddy Simulation (LES) study of the Hyshot II
test, performed by Ingenito at the University of Rome La
Sapienza, showed that compressibility affects the turbulence
energy transfer from large to small scales, and that this effect is
more or less important depending on Mach number. Where
compressible effects are higher, the scaling is steeper than in
the subsonic regime, with a slight deviation from that predicted
by the Kolmogorovs theory. This suggests that in supersonic
flows, the dissipative eddies are larger than those predicted for
subsonic flows.
LES studies conducted by Ingenito et al. showed that the
larger dissipative scales are mainly due to the contribution of
the baroclinic term in the transport equation that is rather high,
of order 10
12
rads
-2
, pumping vorticity within the airstream that
increases, for example, from 0 at the H2 orifice exit to ~10
6
Hz
immediately after the H2 jet penetrates the air core flow.
Representative simulation results are shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
These results are important in scramjet applications because
of the need to mix and burn fuel in a very short time. In fact,
with larger dissipative scales, fuel and oxidizer are mixed at
molecular scales and combustion can take place at these larger
scales. This has consequences also on the chemical reaction
because in supersonic combustion flames, smaller eddies may
become larger than the flame thickness.
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Large Eddie Simulation Studies at the University of Rome
Continue on page 6
Consequently, the smallest vortices can only wrinkle the flame without entering it. This important finding
suggests that numerical modeling must take into account different scaling laws to predict at which length
scales a Sub Grid Scale model must be implemented. This conclusion has important implications both from
numerical and from physical points of view. In fact, larger dissipative structures require modeling a lower
number of scales than in subsonic flow. Furthermore, this can affect the flame structure.
These simulations were obtained using HeaRT, a high order numerical code. HeaRT (Heat Release and
Turbulence) is a LES code capable of simulating unsteady turbulent flows that are either reactive or non-
reactive, with high or low Mach numbers. The HeaRT code has shown excellent, nearly linear scalability.
HeaRT is an in-house computer code developed at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies,
Energy and Sustainable Economical Development (ENEA). The high performance computing capability in
the Modeling and Simulation Laboratory at ENEA consists of a cluster with up to 2048 processors,
available for computational experiments. This work is funded by the European Union.
More information on this and other work is available on the laboratory website:
http://www.zeroemission.enea.it/risorse-en-en/modellistica-e-simulazione-della-combustione
Dr. Antonella Ingenito teaches Liquid Rocket Engine at the Aerospace Engineering School of the
University of Rome La Sapienza. She has research interests in air breathing propulsion, micro-thrusters
and advanced space propulsion. Dr. Ingenito is an international member of the AIAA High Speed Air
Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee.
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Large Eddie Simulation Studies (continued)
Advanced Propulsion Systems and Technologies, Today to 2020
Edited by Claudio Bruno and Antonio Accettura
223, Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics Series, Vol. 223
Published by AIAA, 2008, 460 pages, Hardback
ISBN-10: 1-56347-929-X and ISBN-13: 978-1-56347-929-8
Commissioned by the European Space Agency, this book details specific propulsion
technologies as envisioned by 2020. Each technology has been considered in terms of
concept, associated key technologies, development status, and proposed roadmaps.
The reader is led through all the steps that propulsion will likely take between now
and the 2020s in a clear, concise, and detailed way, including market and feasibility
perspectives when applicable. The 16 chapters follow a developmental logic. The
material starts with the future of solid rocket motors, grounded on R&D done at
present, and describes the development of LOX/HC liquid rocket engines, a
technology based on U.S. and Russian work of the 60s and 70s. It then looks into
future technologies, and systems just beginning to make their impact felt now, such
as superconductivity applied to electric propulsion, MW-class ion engines (perhaps
utilizing a nuclear power source), solar sails, laser propulsion, nuclear propulsion
(such as the promising VASIMR), and ISRU.
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Dr. James L. Mace, Technical fellow, The Boeing Company, St. Louis, Mo., will receive the 2011
AIAA Air Breathing Propulsion Award. The award is presented for meritorious accomplishments
in the arts, sciences, and technology of air breathing propulsion systems. Dr. Mace is being
recognized for unique and sustained contributions to the advancement of technology of
integrated aircraft propulsion systems and their interdisciplinary design, analysis, and test.
Dr. Mace has worked in aircraft propulsion for 40 years in the areas of inlet and nozzle design,
testing, and related CFD. Currently, he has responsibility for leadership of inlet research, both
in-house and contracted, for Boeing Defense, Space and Security in St Louis, Missouri. He
received his BSAE and MSAE from The Ohio State University, and his Ph.D. from the University
of Michigan.
Dr. Mace has been Program Manager / Investigator on over 30 technology development
programs, including Boeing IRADs leading to development of the waverider-inlet technology
base implemented on the F/A-18E/F aircraft. More recently, he has directed IRADs leading to
the technology base for compact inlet systems such as used on Boeings X45 series of aircraft.
He has managed contracted inlet technology development efforts ranging from advanced 2D
exhaust systems to mixed-compression inlet designs for high-speed aircraft.
Dr. Mace spent 13 years at Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, both in the
Airframe / Propulsion Integration Group and Computational Fluid Dynamics Group. He received
the Engineer of TheYear Award for the Laboratory in 1984.
Dr. Mace is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA and an Associate Editor for the Journal of
Propulsion and Power. He currently is a member of the SAE S-16 Turbine Engine Inlet Flow
Distortion Subcommittee. Some of us remember Jim as he served as Chairman of the Air
Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee for many years, for which he was given the
chairmens award by Jeff Hamstra, and then Tom Kaemming replaced him. We are proud to see
Dr. James Mace as this years winner of the AIAAAir Breathing PropulsionAward.
Dr. James Mace
Technical Fellow
The Boeing Company
2011 AIAA Air Breathing Propulsion Award
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2011 AIAA HSABPTC Best Paper Award
This award recognizes the best technical paper presented in a High Speed Air-breathing
Propulsion technical session at the J. Propulsion Conference and the Aerospace Sciences
Meeting. Each session Chair submits a nomination for this award. The 2011 High Speed Air
Breathing Propulsion Best Paper award recipient is
AIAA 2010-6876 CFD Enhancements for Supersonic Combustion Simulation
with VULCAN by F. Ladeinde, K. Alabi, T. Ladeinde, D. Davis, M. Satchell and
R.A. Baurle.
This paper was presented at the 46th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE J. Propulsion Conference & Exhibit.
In this paper, the authors present the results of their effort to develop a more comprehensive CFD
code for modeling of supersonic combustion problems.
The selection committee was lead by Jim Donohue and was supported by Jinho Lee, Venkat
Tangiral, Balu Sekar, Dora Musielak, and John E. Bradford.
AIAA HSABP TC NEWSLETTER No. 2, Issue 2 July 2011
2011 AIAA Gordon C. Oates Air Breathing Propulsion Graduate Award
The Gordon C. Oates award recognizes outstanding graduate student research in
the field of air breathing propulsion. The award consists of a $5000 cash prize and an
expense-paid trip to the Joint Propulsion Conference. This Air Breathing Propulsion
TC supported AIAA Foundation award is named in honor of the late Gordon C.
Oates, a professor in the Department of Aeronautics at the University of
Washington. The award is presented at the JPC Luncheon, and the recipient is
invited to make a presentation at the Joint Airbreathing Propulsion Technical
Committee meeting at JPC. Additional information on the Gordon C. Oates award
in available through the AIAA web site, ABP TC web site or by contacting Stephen
Brock, AIAA Student Program Director (stephenb@aiaa.org).
The 2011 Gordon C. Oates Graduate student Award recipient is Mr. Sean Torrez, a Ph. D. candidate at the
University of Michigan. Mr. Torrez's research focus is on developing the interface between component
design, control systems, and vehicle design for early stage hypersonic vehicle development study. Mr.
Torrez is currently working on simulation of supersonic combustion for a hypersonic vehicle.
Volunteers Needed to Support Awards and Honors
A newH&A chair is also needed for the 2012 and beyond.
Please contact Jinho Lee or Joaquin Castro, our TC Chair, if you are
willing to serve in this important role.
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The 2011 Fundamental Aeronautics Program (FAP) Technical Conference was held March 15-17 at the
Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, Cleveland OH. The technical conference serves the aeronautics
community as an open forum for reviewing accomplishments within the FAP. FAP is coordinated by
NASAs Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate with a mission to support research in all flight
regimes that addresses challenges in air transportation.
Additional program information and a recap of the 2011 technical conference is available at the
FAP home page: http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/fap. A CD containing more than 130 presentations
fromthe conference will be made available to conference attendees.
The FAP has established research collaborations between representatives in industry and
academia with government researchers from the four NASA Aeronautics Centers: Ames Research
Center, Dryden Flight Research Center, Glenn Research Center and Langley Research Center. Of the
four projects within the program, the Supersonics and Hypersonics projects include high speed air
breathing propulsion research elements.
The Tuesday morning plenary session on March 15
th
featured an overview of the Aeronautics
Research Mission Directorate (ARMD), an overview of the FAP, and project overviews for the
Subsonic Fixed Wing, Subsonic Rotary Wing, Supersonics, and Hypersonics projects. Peter Coen,
Project Manager for the Supersonics project, included on the meeting CD a bibliography of over 180
FY10-FY11 project publications in areas related to high speed air breathing propulsion.
Dr. James Pittman, Langley Research Center, has served as the Project Manager for the
Hypersonics Project. The stated project goal is to Develop tools and technologies to enable air
breathing access to space and large-mass entry into planetary atmospheres. The development of air
breathing propulsion technology for a two-stage-to-orbit reference vehicle and the development of
physics based, integrated multi-disciplinary design tools are among the technical challenges being
addressed.
Hypersonic scale targets have been established for maturation to technology readiness level 6
over the next 3 decades leading to commercial applications beginning in 2030. A number of
partnerships in air breathing propulsion were mentioned including collaboration with the Air
Force/DARPA X-51A project, HIFiRE Flight 2, Large-scale Scramjet Engine Test Technique (LSETT)
and the Turbine Based Combined Cycle Test Program.
Beginning in the afternoon session on Tuesday March 15, and extending through the close of the
conference at 5:00 on March 17, each of the four projects within the FAP hosted concurrent sessions
with detailed presentations in their respective areas of research. Over 70 presentations were given in
sessions associated with the supersonics and hypersonics projects.
NASAs 4
th
Annual Fundamental Aeronautics
ProgramTechnical Conference
By Jeff Dalton -AIAA HSABPTC Member
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Faure (Joel) is one of our Associate TC members and one of the busiest. At JPC2011 he will present
a very interesting paper to report his research at AFRL, and he will also chair 3 sessions. Joels
paper at JPC is entitled High Fidelity Analysis of a Generic Supersonic Combustor with a Single Open
Cavity.
In addition to his computational research on scramjet flow paths, this year Joel is the POC of a
USAF-SBIR topic FY11.2, titled: Advanced Analysis and Design Tool for Scramjet Air-Frame
Propulsion Integration and Optimization.
This topic calls for developing a multi-fidelity integrated suite of computational tools to analyze
and aid the creation of advanced scramjet flowpaths. The tool set should accept the output from
traditional engineering design to execute from a low order RANS methodology up through today's
state of the art high order (4th or higher) LES level analyses, solve thermal non-equilibrium
mechanisms, accurate sub-grids scale (SGS) models, consider conjugate heat transfer, general
finite-rate chemistry with ease to modify data base for hydrocarbon/hydrogen-air mixtures, high
temperature and multi-phase effects, etc.
We are very proud to have Joel in our TC, as he represents the type of active member we like to
have, one that supports our efforts to promote and disseminate research findings and knowledge
in high speed air breathing propulsion.
AIAA HSABP TC NEWSLETTER No. 2, Issue 2 July 2011
Faure Joel Malo-Molina, Ph.D.
Research Aerospace Engineer
USAF, AFRL/RBAC
Wright-Patterson AFB OH
The AIAA HyTASP Program Committee Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Award was
recently approved by the AIAA.
This new award is established to recognize sustained, outstanding contributions and
achievements in the advancement of atmospheric, hypersonic flight and related technologies. The
award is presented not more than once every 18 months to an individual who has had extended and
distinguished involvement in hypersonic research and development and, who has contributed
significantly to the advancement of technologies associated with hypersonic atmospheric flight
vehicles for scientific, civil, and/or military applications. Such advancements include any of the
technologies underpinning hypersonic atmospheric flight such as, but not limited to:
1) Advances in vehicle performance capabilities such as speed, altitude, payload weight, flight
duration, or reliability;
2) Improvements in technical understanding of hypersonic system performance, aerodynamics,
propulsion, structures, materials, or controls; or
3) Improvements in operational technologies such as ground and flight systems.
New Award for Sustained Contribution to Hypersonic Technologies
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HSABP TC Represented at Two Pressure-Gain Combustion
Workshops in Europe
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Pressure Gain Combustion Workshop, Whittle
Laboratory, Cambridge, Britain, 7/8/11
A 1-day workshop on pressure-gain combustion at
Cambridge University, was organized by Prof. Robert
Miller of Whittle Labs. It included several invited talks by
the host organization, DARPA and OEM representatives
from R&R, P-W and GE. Dr. Venkat Tangirala (General
Electric Global Research Center) of our HSABP TC
presented a talk on pulse detonation engine technology
development. The workshop included a tour of the
Whittle Lab where advanced pressure gain combustors
are tested.
Pressure Gain Combustion Workshop, MBDA,
Bourges, France, 7/11/11 7/13/11
This was a 3-day workshop organized by Dr. Francois
Falempin of MBDA, and sponsored by MBDA, USAF and
ONR-Global at MBDA in Bourges (France). Topics
presented include continuous rotating detonation
engines (CRDEs) and pulse detonation engines (PDEs).
This workshop was represented by international
members of the pressure-gain combustion research
community. Dr. Venkat Tangirala (General Electric Global
Research Center) of our HSABP TC, and Dr. Guillermo
Paniagua (von Karman Institute) of GTE TC presented
talks on pressure-gain combustors and advanced turbine
technology development.
B. Le Naour and F. Falempin,
Continuous Detonation Wave Engine,
Preliminary Small Scale Demo,
Pressure Gain Combustor Workshop,
Bourges, France, July, 2011
M. Rose, Experimental Shock Flame
Interaction Rig at DLR, Pressure Gain
Combustor Workshop, Bourges,
France, July, 2011
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A Practical Introduction to Preliminary Design of Air Breathing Engines, a new short course co-
sponsored by GTETC and HSABPTC offered after JPC2011.
Ian Halliwell Avetec (GTETC) and Steve Beckel ATK (HSABPTC) have teamed up to develop a
course that defines the scope of preliminary design activities and illustrates how the process is
driven by mission requirements. Contact Ian or Steve for additional information.
Education
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TriJet: Aerojets New TBCC Concept
Novel combined-cycle propulsion system to achieve seamless transition from 0 to Mach 7+
Dora Musielak HSABPTC Communications Chair
The turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) concept is attractive for high speed applications, as it would
merge a turbojet with a dual-mode ramjet/scramjet. But efforts in the past to develop a high-Mach
turbojet failed, leaving propulsion engineers with a huge problemhow to close the gap between the
M2.5 maximum speed of modern turbine engines and the M3-3.5 take-over speed of a dual-mode ramjet
(DMRJ) capable of accelerating a vehicle to M6-7.
Recently Aerojet revealed a very elegant solution. As reported in the June 2011 issue of Aviation Week
& Space Technology, Aerojets TriJet TBCC engine concept introduces a third engine, a rocket
augmented ejector ramjet (ERJ), to fill the gap between the turbojet and the DMRJ. Basically, an aircraft
powered by the TriJet would take off on turbine power then ignite the ejector ramjet to push through the
transonic drag rise and accelerate to the take-over speed for the dual-mode ramjet. What I find clever and
elegant is how the operating envelopes of each of the three engines overlap to provide seamless
propulsion.
Fig. 1 TriJet Inlet Configuration (Aerojet image)
The operation envelope of the TriJet begins at the inlet (Fig. 1, in a twin TriJet installation), which feeds
all three engines. While the dual-mode ramjet has an unobstructed flowpath, the turbojet and ejector
ramjet are concealed behind doors that open and close depending on the phase of flight.
Fig. 2 TriJet, a view from above (Aerojet image)
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TriJet: Aerojets New TBCC Concept (continued)
From zero airspeed to above Mach 1, the inlet doors to the turbine and ERJ engines would be fully
open and both engines would be operating to produce enough thrust to punch through the transonic
drag peak. Above M1, the doors to the turbine engine gradually close until, at M2.5, the turbojet is shut
down, purged and cocooned. The ERJ continues to provide thrust to M4+ before both inlet doors and
nozzle flaps are closed.
On its own, the DMRJ begins to provide thrust around M3. But, according to Aerojet, it can be made
to produce thrust down to M2.5 by operating in sustained aerodynamic choke (SAC) mode. Opening the
nozzle flaps causes the ERJ exhaust plume to choke the flow through the DRMJ. Upstream of the choke
(see Fig. 4), flow is subsonic, allowing the DMRJ nozzle to be used as a ramjet combustor. Pumping fuel
into this much larger space allows both the ERJ and choked DMRJ to produce thrust from M2.5 to M4.
Above that speed the ERJ nozzle flaps are closed and the DMRJ provides all the thrust.
Fig. 3 TriJet, a view from side (Aerojet image)
The Trijet combined cycle engine is a propulsion system that has sufficient thrust in all flight regimes
to accelerate the vehicle swiftly to its Mach 6+ hypersonic cruise, yet the flexibility to take off from a
runway, refuel in flight, return to a powered landing and even execute a go-around.
A hydrocarbon-fueled (JP-10) 75-ft-long vehicle capable of Mach 7 cruise was selected into which to
integrate the TriJet. Range was chosen as the figure of merit for comparison with the Pyrojet, a
kerosene burning TBCC being developed by Aerojet and Pyrodyne. The range capabilities of the Pyrojet
and TriJet are within 10% of each other.
Aerojet has stated that the technology to build the TriJet engine is mature enough to demonstrate
in flight. Now, all they need is the necessary funding.
Fig. 4 Aerojet TriJet Hypersonic TBCC
AIAA High Speed Air Breathing
Propulsion Technical Committee
Joaquin Castro TC Chair
Marty Bradley Past Chair
Ryan Starkey Vice Chair
https://info.aiaa.org/tac/PEG/HSABPTC/default.aspx
Meeting Schedule at JPC2011 Marriott Hotel, San Diego, CA
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Date Time Meeting Room Lead
Monday Aug 1 10:00 11:00 HSABPTC Steering Cardiff Joaquin Castro
13:00 14:00 New Member
Orientation
Balboa TBD
16:00 18:00 HSABPTC
All Members
Marina E Joaquin Castro
Tuesday Aug 2 9:00 10:00 ABP Education Del Mar Dan Kirk
15:00 16:00 ABP Communications Marina D John Sordyl
14:00 15:00 ABP Honors & Awards Del Mar Dave Mayer
16:00 17:00 HSABPTC Liaison Carlsbad Balu Sekar
19:00 22:00 ABP Dinner Meeting
(All 3 TCs)
Marina E Jeff Hamstra