Title
Nonlinear Modeling and Control of a Propellant Mixer
Date Issued
06 November 2003
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
University of Houston
Abstract
A mixing chamber used in rocket engine combustion testing at the NASA Stennis Space Center is modeled by a second order nonlinear MIMO system. The mixer is used to condition the thermodynamic properties of liquid propellant by controlled injection of the same substance in the gaseous phase. The three inputs of the mixer are the positions of the valves regulating the liquid and gas flows at the inlets, and the position of the exit valve regulating the flow of conditioned propellant. The outputs to be tracked and/or regulated are mixer internal pressure, exit mass flow, and exit temperature. The outputs must conform to test specifications dictated by the type of rocket engine or component being tested downstream of the mixer. Feedback linearization is used to achieve tracking and regulation of the outputs. It is shown that the system is minimum-phase provided certain conditions on the parameters are satisfied. The conditions are shown to have physical interpretation.
Start page
2839
End page
2844
Volume
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Termodinámica
Ingeniería aeroespacial
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0142153030
ISSN of the container
07431619
Conference
Proceedings of the American Control Conference
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