I'm collaborating on the development of a regeneratively cooled bipropellant rocket engine with my good friend Jorge Casas.

We hope to compete in the FAR-OUT competition in JUNE 2026.

Pulsar

Liquid Rocket Engine

Overview

My Contributions

Injector Design

Impinging LOX-ethanol injector with assembly components in Fusion 360
Aluminum injector with 304 stainless steel combustion chamber, O-ring sealing
Sized for CNC mill + lathe manufacturing and welding in-house

Analysis

Iterating on single-phase CFD in ANSYS Fluent to validate mass flow rates and pressure drops
Currently conducting multiphase analysisnd welding in-house

Next Steps

Validate 2D CFD
Begin Manufacturing of injector coin in 304 Stainless Steel