The design and development of liquid rocket engine propulsion technologies in South Africa
| When: | Thursday, 05 May 2016 - Thursday, 05 May 2016 |
| Where: | Braamfontein Campus East SWE 118, South West Engineering Building |
| Start time: | 12:15 |
The National Aerospace Centre and the School of Mechanical, Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering at Wits will host Mark Comninos to present this lecture.
Initially specialising in the aerodynamic analysis of launch vehicles via analytical and Computational Fluid Dynamics methods, Comninos rapidly moved into the design of single and two stage to orbit reusable launch vehicles, building up significant experience in all aspects of space transportation systems.
He possesses extensive experience in the design of liquid rocket engines, having conducted significant research and design of regeneratively cooled, turbopump-fed liquid propulsion systems inclusive of nozzle optimisation algorithms, regenerative cooling analyses, turbine efficiency and overall performance computations.
Comninos is the CEO and Chief Design Engineer of Marcom Aeronautics and Space (Pty) LTD.
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