Dynamic Simulation of Electric Rocket Engine Propulsion
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Astronautics & Space Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 368
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Interests: liquid rocket engine technology; rocket engine test and measurement technology; other related areas
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Dear Colleagues,
Currently, dynamic simulation is recognized as a critical and state-of-the-art approach for the development of next-generation liquid rocket engines. It provides an indispensable early understanding of transient performance, system stability, and control characteristics under demanding operational scenarios. This Special Issue, titled “Dynamic Simulation of Electric Rocket Engine Propulsion”, is dedicated to recent computational and experimental efforts in the modeling and simulation of electrically driven pump-fed rocket engines, encompassing systems that use electric motors to drive turbopumps or advanced electromagnetic pumps. The integrated nature of these systems—coupling electrical, rotational, thermal, and fluid-dynamic phenomena—poses significant challenges for high-fidelity simulation. Key challenges of interest include the prediction of start-up and shutdown transients, motor–pump–fluid coupling, battery or power source dynamics, management of cavitation in cryogenic fluids, and the control of mass flow rates under rapidly varying throttle commands.
A further focus of this Special Issue is the application of these dynamic simulation tools to the design optimization and health monitoring of electric pump-fed propulsion systems. The computational cost of modeling the tightly coupled multi-physics environment, especially for full mission profiles, remains a primary obstacle. To advance the routine use of high-fidelity simulation in the design cycle, contributions on methods such as reduced-order modeling, real-time capable models, data-driven system identification, and hardware-in-the-loop testing are strongly encouraged. The Guest Editor of this Special Issue invites authors to submit papers that address the unique challenges in dynamic modeling of electric pump-fed engines and develop novel methods that accelerate and enhance the accuracy of their simulation.
Prof. Dr. Nanjia Yu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- dynamic simulation
- electrically driven pump-fed engine
- turbopump
- multi-physics modeling
- transient analysis
- liquid rocket engine
- control system design
- system integration
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