Marco Pizzarelli

Dr. Marco Pizzarelli

Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Via del Politecnico snc, 00133 Roma, Italy
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Academic Career Length

20Years (2007-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

Representative Publications

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21 April 2023 in Acta Astronautica
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Marco PizzarelliMarco Pizzarelli
Marco Pizzarelli
FBFrancesco Battista
Francesco Battista

1 May 2016 in Applied Thermal Engineering
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RVRaffaele Votta
Raffaele Votta
Francesco BattistaFrancesco Battista
Francesco Battista
VSVito Salvatore
Vito Salvatore
Marco PizzarelliMarco Pizzarelli
Marco Pizzarelli
GLGiuseppe Leccese
Giuseppe Leccese
SMScott Meyer
Scott Meyer

4 June 2022 in Acta Astronautica
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MBMarco Bassetto
Marco Bassetto
LNLorenzo Niccolai
Lorenzo Niccolai
LBLuisa Boni
Luisa Boni
GMGiovanni Mengali
Giovanni Mengali
AQAlessandro A. Quarta
Alessandro A. Quarta
ECEnrico Cavallini
Enrico Cavallini

1 June 2019 in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
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MLMarco Leonardi
Marco Leonardi
Marco PizzarelliMarco Pizzarelli
Marco Pizzarelli
FNFrancesco Nasuti
Francesco Nasuti


26 April 2023 in Aerospace
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MFMatteo Fagherazzi
Matteo Fagherazzi
MSMarco Santi
Marco Santi
FBfrancesco barato
francesco barato
Marco PizzarelliMarco Pizzarelli
Marco Pizzarelli
An essential part of the design of a liquid rocket engine is the thermal analysis of the thrust chamber, which is a component whose operative life is limited by the maximum allowable wall temperature and heat flux. A simplified steady-state thermal analysis model for regeneratively cooled rocket engine thrust chambers is presented. The model is based on semi-empirical correlations for the hot-gas and coolant convective heat transfer and on an original multi-zone approach for the wall conduction. The hot-gas heat transfer is calibrated with experimental data taken from an additively manufactured water-cooled nozzle that is connected to a combustion chamber either fed with decomposed hydrogen peroxide or decomposed hydrogen peroxide and automotive diesel. The thrust chamber (i.e., combustion chamber and nozzle) is designed to produce about 450 N of thrust when operating with a chamber pressure of 11 bar. For this application, the calibrated model predicts the total wall heat transfer rate very accurately and the temperature distribution within the wall structure with an uncertainty of a few tens of kelvins. This level of accuracy can be considered more than adequate for the design, and generally for engineering-type thermal analysis, of similar thrust chambers.