Sankaran Venugopal
Defence Research and Development Laboratory
5 Papers
8 Citations
Sankaran Venugopal is an academic researcher from Defence Research and Development Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Solid fuel & Combustion. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications.
Chat about Author
Papers
Hybrid Rocket Technology
TL;DR: The status of development of hybrid rocket technology is discussed in brief in this paper, based on the experience of the last few decades indicating the maturity of the hybrid space rocket technology, and the status of hybrid space vehicles is given in brief.
20
Combustion Experiments of HTPB/RFNA Mixed Hybrid Propellants
TL;DR: A series of combustion experiments have been conducted for investigating the regression rates of mixed hybrid propellants using Red Fuming Nitrous Acid (RFNA) as liquid oxidizer and Hydroxyl-Terminated Polybutadiene (HTPB) with the addition of Ammonium Perchlorate (AP) upto 20 percent as the solid fuel as mentioned in this paper.
6
Design and Testing of Lab-scale Red Fuming Nitric Acid/Hydroxyl-terminated Polybutadiene Hybrid Rocket Motor for Studying Regression Rate
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the design of a hybrid rocket motor and the experiments carried out for investigation of hybrid combustion and regression rates for a combination of liquid oxidiser red fuming nitric acid with solid fuel hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene.
2