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11:45 am
October 12, 2010

Awesomeman

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Hello!

I read about this orginization on Reddit and I felt curious to see if there would be any need of my experience.

I'm a mechanical engineer who graduated from university in 2007. I currently work in the power generation industry as a performance and reliability engineer. Most of my experience from school and work centers around thermodynamics and heat transfer. I am a capable technical writer and occasional project manager and I also have some passing experience in flight dynamics.

I think the OHKLA project has potential and I find the idea of maintaining an open source approach to the whole endeavor to be interesting.

Please let me know if and how my experience would be useful and if it would be worthwhile in getting me up to speed on the current status of the project.

Regards,

pat

11:58 pm
October 13, 2010

rpulkrabek

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Hey Awesomeman,

I am also an ME. I have been working to get OHKLA off the ground. I would appreciate any and all input you have for it. At the moment I have been making CAD models in Pro/E and some analysis in Ansys. Are you familiar with any of these? If so, we can share the models and collaborate that way. Otherwise, take a look at this thread. If you see something that looks wrong to you, let me know, and we can fix it. Also, provide any input you know of to improve the design. For example, one thing I would like to do is perform some heat analysis on the nozzle to determine the best material and needed thickness. We also need to determine best how to create the combustion chamber to handle the high heat produced. I am leaning towards some sort of phenolics in the pre-combustion and post-combustion areas.

To some things up, jump right in and help where you are interested :)

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