Project Title:

Integrated Turbine Meanline Design and Off-Design Codes for Low Cost Rockets.

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Integrated Turbine Meanline Design and Off-Design Codes for Low 
Cost Rockets.

Abstract:

This Small Business Innovative Research Phase I project provides 
the preliminary design, coding, and documentation for a set of 
Integrated Turbine Meanline Design and Off-Design Codes for Low 
Cost Rockets. A prototype code will be developed that includes all 
the user interfaces, high level code modules, and a detailed 
implementation of one option. This innovation consists of the 
integration of design and off-design lD analysis tools for 
supersonic and subsonic turbine analysis. The common user interface 
and nomenclature for the four meanline turbine codes will save 
turbine design or analysis engineers time in learning the codes and 
in implementing and evaluating designs for low cost rocket 
turbomachinery. Small companies or government groups who do not 
have the resources to develop their own turbine design and analysis 
system can readily obtain this software. The cost of turbines can 
be reduced if small, lean companies are able to provide the turbine 
instead of the larger, expensive companies. The Phase I effort 
provides the foundation for the Phase II completion of this 
software system which will aid this process. Software engineering 
principles will be used in the analysis, design, coding, test, and 
documentation of this integrated turbine software system.

The completed software system can be sold or licensed to small 
turbine manufacturing companies. It can be provided to government 
groups responsible for evaluating turbine proposals, development, 
or procurement. It can provide consultants with a tool for turbine 
analysis or design contracts.

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Behta Zehta
9059 Sugar Tree Trail
Huntsville, AL 35802