Design Of Mems Based Microthruster - A Study

The paper presents the exhaustive literature review carried out for the design and analysis of MEMS based microthruster. Nowadays, Microthrusters are the latest technology used for the satellite application such as attitude control, orbital adjustment etc. The paper tried to discuss about its overall design, ignition system, propellant combination and the flow analysis. The authors have tried to summarize the contributions of various researchers in the field of MEMS based microthruster. The paper discusses in detail about the studies relating to design and analysis of the microthruster and its trade-offs. This study was aimed to enhance the knowledge by concluding various literatures and finding their research gaps. These gaps have been dealt effectively by providing probable discussions. The computational work includes the flow analysis of the nozzle which aims to achieve better results in all dimensions. The aim of this review was to summarize the recent progression as well as implementation of the microthruster to identify some challenging issues that need to be solved for future research. These challenges were deciphered using the recommendations based on the results of computational work and discussing the review of literatures (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.