Question: Problem 5 : ( 2 0 pts ) In your past fluid mechanics class, you have determined the thrust and / or specific impulse of

Problem 5: (20 pts)
In your past fluid mechanics class, you have determined the thrust and/or specific impulse of a rocket engine, but have you ever designed one? This problem will actually teach you how to design a rocket engine!
The general shape of a rocket engine is given below. It consists of two main components:
(1) Combustion chamber
(2) Converging-diverging nozzle
The engine uses H2O2 mixture that arrives inside the chamber at Tin=300K. The subsequent combustion process generates 92,000Jmol of energy (please note: in chemical reactions we use moles instead of kilograms but they should be treated the same - it will not matter in calculation as all moles will cancel out).
Find:
a. Applying Reynolds Transport Theorem (RTT) over the combustion chamber, determine what is the combustion temperature assuming no heat transfer out of the chamber and no work.
[Use the following specific heats: cpin=29Jmol-K and cpout=41.9Jmol-K]
b. Once the gases have combusted, they leave the combustion chamber (1) and enter into the converging diverging nozzle (2). Assuming an isentropic process through the nozzle and knowing that the nozzle exit gas temperature is Te=600K, what is the exit mach number?
[assume =1.35]
c. Find the specific impulse of the rocket engine. [assume speed of sound is c=360ms]
d. What should the area ratio AAthroat be in order to achieve the desired specific impulse?
[Note: by solving point this last point you determine the actual geometry of the rocket nozzle]
Points b-d are "plug and chug" using the isentropic relations that were derived in your Fluid Mechanics class. They are repeated here for brevity:
TchTe=(1+-12Mae2)
Mae=Vec
Isp=Ve9.81
AAthroat=1Mae(+121+-12Mae2)+12-2
Problem 5 : ( 2 0 pts ) In your past fluid

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