AE4S07_Project_25b

Code for Micropropulsion project #25b

This repository contains all of the Matlab scripts and functions that were used for project #25b.

• experimental.m generates figures of the experimental data, the linear approximations, and the power efficiencies of the three thrusters.

• slopesLd1.m generates the figure showing the maximum and minimum possible slopes for the power/pressure curve of Ld1.

• heatLossFigure.m generates the plots of the heat losses of each thruster.

• TvapBS2.m generates the plot of the vaporization temperature of thruster BS2 in ambient and vacuum conditions.

• operationResults.m shows the results of the simulations.

• The directory thermalModel contains the Solidworks files of the VLM thermal model (parts, assembly and drawing).

• The scripts chamber_pressure.m and ideal_power.m were taken from Gelmi's report.