Hybrid Rockets

Hybrid rockets

Hybrid rocket engines (HREs) are rocket propulsion devices burning a solid fuel and a liquid/gaseous oxidizer, which aim at combining the simplicity of solid rocket motors with the restarting and throttling capabilities of liquid rocket engines, while having an increased safety thanks to the different phases in which the propellants are stored.

With more than ten years of experience in the simulation of complex HREs, our research team represents a world-wide excellence in the field. 

Present research concerns:

• Analysis of swirl injection effects 

• Numerical modeling of paraffin/SEBS blends

• Assessment of radiative heat fluxes due to gas and particle contributions