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  1. Advances in ASRI’s Liquid and Hybrid Rocket Propulsion Programs

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks

  2. Preliminary Results from the Design and Testing of a Rocket Engine Electro-Pump

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks

  3. Formulation, Rheology and Impact Sensitivity of "Green" Gelled Propellants with and without Metal Additives

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks

  4. Preliminary Results from the 2023 Phoenix Hybrid Rocket Launch Campaign.

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks, Philani Ngcobo, Vedanth Reddy, Jordan Silver, Phillip Gyasi-Agyei, Jared Sabbagha

  5. Ablative Thrust Chamber Development for the SAFFIRE ABLE Liquid Rocket Engine

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks

  6. Design Simulation of Gas Generator and Electrically Pumped Rocket Engine Cycles Under Ablative and Regenerative Cooling

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks, Jordan Silver

  7. An Experimental Investigation of Slosh in Propellant Tanks Using Additively Manufactured Baffles

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks, Jordan Silver

  8. Facility Design and Cold Flow Testing Operations for an 18kN LOX/Kerosene Liquid Rocket Engine

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks

  9. Preliminary Performance Data of an 18kN Ablatively Cooled, Blowdown Liquid Rocket Engine.

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks

  10. CFD Surrogate Assisted Optimization of an Electrically Driven Rocket Engine Propellant Pump

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks, Vedanth Reddy

  11. Development of a Test Rig for Visualization of Gelled Propellant Simulant Atomization

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks

  12. Optimization of Rocket Fins using a 6-DOF Solver

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks, Dr Jonathan Bergh

  13. Design of a Flight Weight Pressure Regulator for Pressurization of Propellant Tanks on Commercial Space Launch Vehicles

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks

  14. introduction to the University of kwazulu-natal

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, October 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks, Prof.Dr. Essam E. Khalil, Dr. S.A. Sherif

  15. An Introduction to the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Solar Energy Research Amplified Flux Facility - SERAFF

    Article • July 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks

  16. Structural Performance of Large Scale Paraffin Wax Based Fuel Grains

    Article • July 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks

  17. Preliminary design of a supersonic, partial admission gas turbine

    Article • July 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Mr Donald J FITZGERALD, Dr Michael Brooks

  18. Flight Test of the Phoenix-1A Hybrid Rocket

    Article • July 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks

  19. Preliminary Design of the Phoenix-1B Hybrid Rocket

    Article • July 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Michael Brooks