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    The document describes the design of an afterburner for an AMT Mercury Micro Turbojet engine owned by The Cooper Union. A team of students is expanding previous work to fully characterize the turbojet and design an afterburner that can inject fuel between the turbine and nozzle, ignite a stable flame, and operate easily. The preliminary design uses the turbojet's flow properties and existing nozzle geometry. Computational fluid dynamics analysis of the nozzle concept shows a region of low flow velocity due to flow separation and turbulence, which is expected to improve combustion stability and efficiency. Future work will involve experiments to better understand ignition and flame stabilization before fabrication and testing of the full afterburner design.

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    The document describes the design of an afterburner for an AMT Mercury Micro Turbojet engine owned by The Cooper Union. A team of students is expanding previous work to fully characterize the turbojet and design an afterburner that can inject fuel between the turbine and nozzle, ignite a stable flame, and operate easily. The preliminary design uses the turbojet's flow properties and existing nozzle geometry. Computational fluid dynamics analysis of the nozzle concept shows a region of low flow velocity due to flow separation and turbulence, which is expected to improve combustion stability and efficiency. Future work will involve experiments to better understand ignition and flame stabilization before fabrication and testing of the full afterburner design.

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    The document describes the design of an afterburner for an AMT Mercury Micro Turbojet engine owned by The Cooper Union. A team of students is expanding previous work to fully characterize the turbojet and design an afterburner that can inject fuel between the turbine and nozzle, ignite a stable flame, and operate easily. The preliminary design uses the turbojet's flow properties and existing nozzle geometry. Computational fluid dynamics analysis of the nozzle concept shows a region of low flow velocity due to flow separation and turbulence, which is expected to improve combustion stability and efficiency. Future work will involve experiments to better understand ignition and flame stabilization before fabrication and testing of the full afterburner design.

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    The Design of A Turbojet Afterburner

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    Harrison Milne, Ashish Pokharel, Jordan Selig
    The Cooper Union Department of Mechanical Engineering

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    Advisor: Professor George Sidebotham
    Fall 2016

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    Background
    The Cooper Union owns an AMT Mercury Micro Turbojet

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    Engine. Two former mechanical engineering students
    AF fabricated a test stand and a basic instrumentation kit for
    the jet engine. We are expanding upon this work by
    designing and fabricating an afterburner for the system.

    Design Functional
    AMT Mercury Micro
    Turbojet Engine
    Constraints Requirements
    Operation in engine lab Inject fuel between turbine
    Retrofit existing nozzle, and nozzle
    but be independent of Ignite stable flame
    turbojet Easy to operate
    Characterizing the Turbojet
    Using the techniques and principles of Thermodynamics,
    Fluid Mechanics, Gas Dynamics, Rocket Science, and
    Afterburner Design
    Computational Fluid Dynamics, as well as the experimental Using the characteristics and flow properties from the turbojet
    work performed by Cooper Union alumni who also worked analysis, as well as the existing nozzle geometry, a preliminary design
    with the turbojet, the Cooper Union Turbojet was fully Current afterburner fuel solution was developed. The design consists of a fuel injection system
    characterized. This involved completing a Brayton Cycle
    injection design that will inject fuel after the turbine and in the nozzle. The fuel injectors
    analysis, a control volume analysis, a compressible flow in the afterburner will act as bluff bodies to reduce localized exhaust
    nozzle analysis, and a Rayleigh Flow analysis. Turbojet nozzle gas velocity, improving combustion stability and efficiency.
    Nozzle hub

    CFD Analysis of Nozzle With Theoretical Results


    Afterburner Concept
    Region of low flow velocity
    due to flow separation and
    turbulence

    CFD Analysis of Nozzle Afterburner concept


    Nozzle shroud
    Future Work
    A series of experiments needs to be
    performed in order to better understand
    the ignition of a gas in a high velocity
    Nozzle hub stream of air, flame stabilization, and the
    capabilities of The Cooper Union testing
    facilities. Once this is complete,
    fabrication, testing, and verification can
    be carried out.
    High velocity jet

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