• Electrically controlled solid propellants
• Two-phase losses in SRM
• Ignition Transients in solid Rockets & Laser Ignition
• High-Performance Hybrid Rockets
• Thrust Termination of solid rockets 
  – Stop & Restart Capability
• Power generation using effluent/biomass using hybrid rockets
• Hypergolic combustion with ionic liquids – Green Propellants
• High energetic Gun Propellants
• Gas Generating Propellants
• Solid/ hybrid propellant Combustion modeling

• Gun propellants

  

• Strand Burner/ Crawford Bomb
  - Measure burn rate of propellants
• Quench Bomb – Max pressure 200 bar
  - To measure critical depressurization rate
  - 50,000 bar/s
• Alumina Particle collection setup
• Solid Rocket Test Facility
• ---Up to 0.5 kg of propellant Hybrid Rocket Test Facility
• ---Ox: O2 & N2O
• ---Fuel: HTPB & Paraffin Wax
• ---Multiple port grain

• Spiral port Grain

• Dynamic thrust hybrid rocket

• Low Temp. Gas Generating (GG) Propellants
• ---Inflating decoys for military
• ---Air Bags for Cars

• Gun Propellant Testing

• Models
• ---AP/HTPB Propellant Modeling

• ---AP/AND Propellant Modeling

• ---Modeling of Two-Phase losses in SRM

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• ---Random Packing algorithm

  

• ---Sandwich Propellant Combustion

  

• ---60 Bar ADN/HTPB

•Two-phase flow in Nozzle

•Break-up modelling studied – Initial Particle diameter – 100 microns