Visualization of Design-Space Constitution for Single-Stage Hybrid Rocket with Rigid Body in View of Extinction-Reignition

Abstract

Visualization of design space has been performed for researching and developing a single-stage launch vehicle with hybrid rocket engine by using design informatics, which has three points of view such as problem definition, optimization, and data mining. The primary objective of the present design is that the ascendancy of extinction-reignition, which is one of the beneficial point of hybrid rocket, for improving the downrange and the duration time in the lower thermosphere. Polypropylene and liquid oxygen with swirling flow are adopted as solid fuel and liquid oxidizer, respectively. The multidisciplinary design optimization was performed by using a hybrid evolutionary computation. Data mining was also implemented by using a scatter plot matrix. As a result, it is revealed that extinction-reignition extends the duration time though it does not give an effect on improving the downrange. Data-mining result also shows the physical mechanism of the design variables to improve the duration time on the visualization of design-space constitution.