Optimized Solutions for Kistler K-1 Branching Trajectories Using Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Techniques

Ledsinger, Laura Anne; Olds, John R.

doi:10.2514/2.3825

Cited by 13 publications

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“…The K-1 recovery process is shown in Fig. 1.3 [8,9]. Subsequent to the separation of the first and second stages, the first stage engine of the launch vehicle will be separated from the first stage and re-enter the atmosphere under the protection of an inflatable heat shield.…”

Section: Reusable Space Transportation System In Axisymmetric Configu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Review, Prospect and Technical Challenge of Launch Vehicle

Wang

Zhang

et al. 2023

Springer Series in Astrophysics and Cosmology

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Following six decades of development, the technology of launch vehicle has progressed with respect to the dual action of demand traction and technical promotion, providing increasingly valuable high-tech services for society. Currently, the development of launch vehicle is progressing with respect to stronger capabilities, higher reliability, lowering costs, flexibility, and user convenience. Retrospectively, the global development history of the launch vehicle technology can be roughly categorized into four stages with distinct characteristics of the decades.

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Section: Reusable Space Transportation System In Axisymmetric Configu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Review, Prospect and Technical Challenge of Launch Vehicle

Wang

Zhang

et al. 2023

Springer Series in Astrophysics and Cosmology

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“…Examples include the design of launch vehicles [39], rocket engines [40], satellite constellations [147], flight trajectories [72,148], and flight control systems [149], as well as the preliminary design of complete aircraft [17,18] and aircraft family design [150]. Beyond aerospace engineering, CO has been applied to problems involving automobile engines [28], bridge design [22], and railway cars [26], and even the design of a scanning optical microscope [27].…”

Section: Collaborative Optimization (Co)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization: A Survey of Architectures

2013

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Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) is a field of research that studies the application of numerical optimization techniques to the design of engineering systems involving multiple disciplines or components. Since the inception of MDO, various methods (architectures) have been developed and applied to solve MDO problems. This paper provides a survey of all the architectures that have been presented in the literature so far. All architectures are explained in detail using a unified description that includes optimization problem statements, diagrams, and detailed algorithms. The diagrams show both data and process flow through the multidisciplinary system and computational elements, which facilitates the understanding of the various architectures, and how they relate to each other.A classification of the MDO architectures based on their problem formulations and decomposition strategies is also provided, and the benefits and drawbacks of the architectures are discussed from both a theoretical and experimental perspective. For each architecture, several applications to the solution of engineering design problems are cited. The result is a comprehensive but straightforward introduction to MDO for non-specialists, and a reference detailing all current MDO architectures for specialists.

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“…As the name implies, the parachute recovery is achieved by installing a parachute on the launch vehicle parts and decelerating the parts by it. This technology has been successfully applied in the recovery missions and tests of various types of launch vehicles, such as Electron, 1 Vulcan, 2 K-1, [3][4][5] Ariane 5, Energy, [6][7][8] and Falcon 9. 9 This method is of high maturity, and it has the advantage of small loss of carrying capacity.…”

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A novel cable-net buffer device for recovering reusable launch vehicle: Design, dynamic modeling, and performance analysis

Wang,

Xiang,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C:

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At present, reusable launch vehicle technology (RLV) has become a research hotspot in the aerospace field and one of the major development trends in this industry. With reference to the aircraft carrier’s arresting cable technology, this paper puts forward a novel cable-net buffer device for recovering the first stage of launch vehicle. The device can transfer load through a cable-pulley mechanism, and then complete the first stage recovery by losing the kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy of the first stage through hydraulic dampers and preloaded counterweights. In order to analyze the performance of this cable-net buffer device, the finite element software ABAQUS is adopted to establish a rigid-flexible coupling dynamic model. In this model, the cable-pulley mechanism is simulated by connector and shell elements, the damping force of the hydraulic dampers by VUAMP subroutine, and the preloaded counterweights by mass point. And then, performance evaluation indexes of this buffer device are proposed in this paper. Meanwhile, the dynamic simulation, using the established dynamic model, is carried out under different device design parameters and working condition parameters. On the one hand, the simulation results show that the tower span and damping force have remarkable effects on the buffer performance. On the other hand, among all working condition parameters, only the fall point deviation has a significant effect on the buffer performance, but this effect is less than that of the design parameters. Finally, combing the dynamic model and the surrogate model technique, this paper obtains feasible boundaries of design parameters of the device for the subsequent detailed design of it. Researches in this paper will provide new ideas for the development of RLV.

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Optimized Solutions for Kistler K-1 Branching Trajectories Using Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Techniques

Cited by 13 publications

References 8 publications

Review, Prospect and Technical Challenge of Launch Vehicle

Review, Prospect and Technical Challenge of Launch Vehicle

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization: A Survey of Architectures

A novel cable-net buffer device for recovering reusable launch vehicle: Design, dynamic modeling, and performance analysis

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