Patent ID: 11913410
Assignee: X-BOW LAUNCH SYSTEMS INC.
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  B | IPC B  F

Claim 17:
18. A method of making a fuel grain for use in a rocket motor, the method comprising:
blending a first energetic nanoscale metallic compound and a second compound suitable as a rocket fuel to form a third compound;
the third compound serving as feedstock material for use in an additive manufacturing apparatus;
wherein the additive manufacturing apparatus is operatively connected to a computing system, the computing system configured to perform a stochastic deposition simulations for optimizing fuel grain architectures;
wherein said stochastic deposition simulation provides additive manufacturing printing instructions to the additive manufacturing apparatus permitting construction of an optimized rocket fuel grain section;
wherein the stochastic deposition simulation-assisted fuel grain geometries further comprise a plurality of agglutinated layers of solidified fuel grain compound, each layer of the plurality of layers comprising a permeable fuel grain pores having a diameter, the diameter modulated by a user to modify rocket motor ballistic profiles;
wherein said permeable fuel grain pores are spatially deposited within the rocket motor as determined by said stochastic deposition simulations executed using one or more Graphical Processing Units;
and
wherein the additive manufacturing apparatus forms the fuel grain using the feedstock material.