RED- Thermal Analysis

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The most important part of RED is ensuring the cooling channels can transfer over enough of the heat and absorb this before any serious damage would be caused to the liner.

How It Works

Changing Reynolds Number in Channels

I work on setting up analysis for various heat transfer considerations inside the channels. These include the potential for nucleate boiling, coking of JetA fuel in the channels, and thermal stress on the liner. This is done primarily through making code in Matlab, using NASA CEA to get some basic properties and setting up FEA runs on the piece itself.

I also look at values from RPA but do not consider them final as I am not fully aware of all work performed by RPA and code such as RPA is not considered fully trustworthy. To get output values I perform numerical analysis on data sets in order to see how trustworthy outputs are