DEVELOPING THE RESEARCH LINES OF VIKTOR V. PYLYPENKO, AN ACADEMICIAN OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE

For the 90th birth anniversary of Viktor V. Pylypenko, an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Abstract

This paper presents the results of studies along the principal research lines of Viktor V. Pylypenko, an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, obtained by his pupils over the recent years. The following lines are considered: the development of a theory of cavitation oscillations in liquid-propellant rocket engine (LPRE) pumps, the study of low-frequency dynamics in liquid-propellant rocket propulsion systems (LPRPSs), the analysis and assurance of liquid-propellant launch vehicle pogo stability, the mathematical simulation of dynamic processes in solid-propellant rocket engines, the development of pneumatic vibration protection modules, and the improvement of drilling technology by using cavitation hydrovibrator. A hydrodynamic model of cavitating LPRE pumps was developed further: it was verified using theoretical and experimental transfer matrices of cavitating pumps, and two new coefficients were introduced: the time of disturbance transfer delay due to the presence of cavities and the cavitation resistance distribution coefficient; from the results of dynamic tests of 26 pumps, the cavity elasticity was determined for pumps with extended ranges of their geometric parameters and operating conditions; a pump choking mechanism was developed, and it was shown that the pump choking characteristic is a specific nonlinearity involving a critical cavity flow; a mechanism of hard excitation of cavitation self-oscillations was proposed, and they were mathematically simulated. A theory of LPRPS low-frequency dynamics was developed further: procedures were developed for determining the effect of a nonsimultaneous engine startup and external and internal factors on LPRE startup thrust spread; a mathematical simulation was conducted to study sustainer engine startup and shutdown transients in the common feed system of the sustainer engine and the liquid-propellant thrust system of the Cyclone-4M launch vehicle’s upper stage. A study was conducted on pogo vibrations in the prototype Cyclone and Dnipro launch vehicles unstable for pogo vibrations during the first-stage engine operation.

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