The ESPSS (European Space Propulsion System Simulation) toolkit has become the go-to simulation tool for space propulsion applications across Europe.
Powered by EcosimPro, ESPSS' libraries offer a solid and reliable solution that more and more aerospace companies trust for modelling sophisticated rocket and satellite propulsion systems. It is also being used to model new concepts of propulsion systems that could represent significant milestones in future propulsion systems, including hybrid propulsion, electric propulsion, and more recently, green and nuclear propulsion.
This state-of-the-art tool has been successfully validated with the help of analytical solutions (1D Pipe & Combustor models), experiments entailing priming cases, two-phase tank filling processes, the Ariane 5 ESC-A upper stage, etc.
With ESPSS, you can:
- Graphically design complex fluid networks and propulsion systems
- Run multiple calculations and easily post-process your results
- Steady state operation
- Transient operation
- Optimization
- Parameter estimation
- Parametric studies
- Customize ESPSS functionalities to suit your unique needs
- Easily track the changes of your model's results as libraries evolve
- Export your model to integrate with external tools (FMI 3.0, OPC_UA, Simulink and others)
The palettes of components allow the user to build graphically complex models quickly and to add new components to the library.
ESPSS/EcosimPro pressurized tank model
ESPSS/EcosimPro model's results visualization
The ESPSS is organized in a set of thematic libraries that cover different disciplines. What are these libraries specialised in?
- Simulation of ground, spacecraft and launch vehicle propulsion systems under transient and steady conditions
- Propulsion system with two-fluid mixtures under gas, liquid and two-phase flow regimes for a wide database of working
- Studies of water hammer, pressure drop, priming processes, etc. in fluid networks
- Hydraulic and pneumatic systems, equipment and combustors, with heat transfer and controls loops coupled together
- Transient simulation of liquid, solid and hybrid rocket engines
- Simulation of ramjet engines
- Orbital and attitude motion of satellites
- Performance analysis and design of space engines
- Electrical propulsion systems
- Modeling of combustors, heat-exchangers, turbo-machinery, pumps, tanks, etc.
- Nuclear reactors for space applications
Coupling between a Gas Cooled Reactor and a Electric Thruster, through a cycle simplified component
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