Supersonic Phase-change Ejector Cycle for Thermal Refrigeration Efficiency (SPECTRE)
January 1, 2023
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Team design project analyzing and optimizing a supersonic phase-change ejector refrigeration cycle.
- Created computational models of various refrigeration cycles
- Analyzed a variety of working fluids for each cycle design
- Gave recommendations of components that are most beneficial to improve cycle efficiency
- Proposed an optimized design via solving an optimization problem numerically
Authors
Graduate Researcher
Outland is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado Boulder, Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. His research is in differential game theory, safe multi-agent systems, and computational astrodynamics — with a focus on algorithms that are tractable enough to run onboard while providing formal guarantees.