TY  - CHAP
A1  - Stark, Ralf
A1  - Rieping, Carla
A1  - Esch, Thomas
T1  - The impact of guide tubes on flow separation in rocket nozzles
T2  - Aerospace Europe Conference 2023 - 10th EUCASS - 9th CEAS
N2  - Rocket engine test facilities and launch pads are typically equipped with a guide tube. Its purpose is to ensure the controlled and safe routing of the hot exhaust gases. In addition, the guide tube induces a suction that effects the nozzle flow, namely the flow separation during transient start-up and shut-down of the engine. A cold flow subscale nozzle in combination with a set of guide tubes was studied experimentally
to determine the main influencing parameters.
KW  - Guide Tube
KW  - TICTOP
KW  - Nozzle
KW  - Suction
Y1  - 2023
N1  - Lausanne, July 9-13, 2023
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Stark, Ralf
A1  - Bartel, Sebastian
A1  - Ditsche, Florian
A1  - Esch, Thomas
T1  - Design study of a 30kN LOX/LCH4 aerospike rocket engine for lunar lander application
T2  - Aerospace Europe Conference 2023 - 10th EUCASS - 9th CEAS
N2  - Based on lunar lander concept EL3, various LOX/CH4 aerospike engines were studied. A distinction was made between single and cluster configurations as well as ideal and non-ideal contour concepts. It could be shown that non-ideal aerospike engines promise a significant payload gain.
Y1  - 2023
N1  - Lausanne, July 9-13, 2023
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schopen, Oliver
A1  - Shah, Neel
A1  - Esch, Thomas
A1  - Shabani, Bahman
T1  - Critical quantitative evaluation of integrated health management methods for fuel cell applications
JF  - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
N2  - Online fault diagnostics is a crucial consideration for fuel cell systems, particularly in mobile applications, to limit downtime and degradation, and to increase lifetime. Guided by a critical literature review, in this paper an overview of Health management systems classified in a scheme is presented, introducing commonly utilised methods to diagnose FCs in various applications. In this novel scheme, various Health management system methods are summarised and structured to provide an overview of existing systems including their associated tools. These systems are classified into four categories mainly focused on model-based and non-model-based systems. The individual methods are critically discussed when used individually or combined aimed at further understanding their functionality and suitability in different applications. Additionally, a tool is introduced to evaluate methods from each category based on the scheme presented. This tool applies the technique of matrix evaluation utilising several key parameters to identify the most appropriate methods for a given application. Based on this evaluation, the most suitable methods for each specific application are combined to build an integrated Health management system.
KW  - Fuel cell
KW  - Health management system
KW  - Online diagnostic
KW  - Fault detection
KW  - Non-model-based Evaluation
Y1  - 2024
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.05.156
SN  - 0360-3199
VL  - 70
SP  - 370
EP  - 388
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -