

December 2025 monthly recap for PURPL-Purdue/Turbopump. Key features delivered: an off-design pump performance analysis script for kerosene and LOX, with updates to design mass flow rates and pressures to reflect new operating parameters. This enhances the accuracy of performance predictions and provides clearer insight into pump behavior under varying conditions. Major bug fixes: corrected the kerosene mass flow rate (mdot) parameterization to ensure accurate calculations of system performance. Overall impact: improved prediction accuracy, better design decision support, and reduced rework through traceable commits and documentation. Technologies demonstrated: Python scripting for analysis, thermodynamics-based parameterization, data-driven validation, and robust version control practices.
December 2025 monthly recap for PURPL-Purdue/Turbopump. Key features delivered: an off-design pump performance analysis script for kerosene and LOX, with updates to design mass flow rates and pressures to reflect new operating parameters. This enhances the accuracy of performance predictions and provides clearer insight into pump behavior under varying conditions. Major bug fixes: corrected the kerosene mass flow rate (mdot) parameterization to ensure accurate calculations of system performance. Overall impact: improved prediction accuracy, better design decision support, and reduced rework through traceable commits and documentation. Technologies demonstrated: Python scripting for analysis, thermodynamics-based parameterization, data-driven validation, and robust version control practices.
Monthly summary for 2025-11 for PURPL-Purdue/Turbopump. Focused on delivering LOx impeller design enhancements, implementing safety-oriented state persistence, and correcting critical YAML parameters to ensure accurate pump operation. These work items collectively advance reliability, operational safety, and system readiness, enabling safer operation of turbopump subsystems while improving aerodynamic efficiency and configuration correctness.
Monthly summary for 2025-11 for PURPL-Purdue/Turbopump. Focused on delivering LOx impeller design enhancements, implementing safety-oriented state persistence, and correcting critical YAML parameters to ensure accurate pump operation. These work items collectively advance reliability, operational safety, and system readiness, enabling safer operation of turbopump subsystems while improving aerodynamic efficiency and configuration correctness.
October 2025 monthly summary for PURPL-Purdue/Turbopump: Key engineering deliverables centered on LOX turbopump design and performance tooling. Delivered a redesigned LOX impeller and integrated it into the turbopump assembly; introduced a Python-based performance calculation tooling with updated parameters to improve accuracy and reliability. This work enhances propulsion efficiency and system robustness, enabling faster iteration and data-driven decisions.
October 2025 monthly summary for PURPL-Purdue/Turbopump: Key engineering deliverables centered on LOX turbopump design and performance tooling. Delivered a redesigned LOX impeller and integrated it into the turbopump assembly; introduced a Python-based performance calculation tooling with updated parameters to improve accuracy and reliability. This work enhances propulsion efficiency and system robustness, enabling faster iteration and data-driven decisions.
For September 2025 (2025-09), PURPL-Purdue/Turbopump focused on delivering a modular pump parameterization capability and reaction force analysis. The work introduced new parameter files for pumps and rotordynamics and a dedicated script to calculate pump reaction forces, refactoring the codebase to consume the new parameter files. This enhances organization, modularity, and maintainability, enabling detailed pump performance analysis and informing design decisions for rotor/pump dynamics.
For September 2025 (2025-09), PURPL-Purdue/Turbopump focused on delivering a modular pump parameterization capability and reaction force analysis. The work introduced new parameter files for pumps and rotordynamics and a dedicated script to calculate pump reaction forces, refactoring the codebase to consume the new parameter files. This enhances organization, modularity, and maintainability, enabling detailed pump performance analysis and informing design decisions for rotor/pump dynamics.
August 2025—PURPL-Purdue/Turbopump: Delivered a new NPSH analysis tool for kerosene pump inducer, driven by a YAML source of truth for project parameters. The Python script computes and plots NPSH available and NPSH required for LOX and kerosene under varying tank pressures, establishing a standardized method for design parameter management and turbopump system analysis. This provides reproducible analysis, accelerates design decisions, and improves parameter governance for turbopump developments. No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on delivering a robust tooling capability and setting the foundation for future trade studies.
August 2025—PURPL-Purdue/Turbopump: Delivered a new NPSH analysis tool for kerosene pump inducer, driven by a YAML source of truth for project parameters. The Python script computes and plots NPSH available and NPSH required for LOX and kerosene under varying tank pressures, establishing a standardized method for design parameter management and turbopump system analysis. This provides reproducible analysis, accelerates design decisions, and improves parameter governance for turbopump developments. No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on delivering a robust tooling capability and setting the foundation for future trade studies.
July 2025 monthly summary for PURPL-Purdue/Turbopump. Focused on feature delivery to prepare for the Pre-CDR phase, with component-level enhancements and improved assembly organization. No explicit bug fixes were recorded in this dataset; efforts prioritized readiness for the CD-R review and ongoing maintenance of the power assembly model.
July 2025 monthly summary for PURPL-Purdue/Turbopump. Focused on feature delivery to prepare for the Pre-CDR phase, with component-level enhancements and improved assembly organization. No explicit bug fixes were recorded in this dataset; efforts prioritized readiness for the CD-R review and ongoing maintenance of the power assembly model.
June 2025 monthly performance summary for PURPL-Purdue/Turbopump: Focused on consolidating turbine CAD design updates and enabling manufacturability and accurate performance modeling. Delivered concrete CAD changes on velocity triangles, mass flow rate tuning to 1.25 lb for the turbine stator, and integration of wrenches on the kerosene casing. These changes improve design fidelity, reduce integration risk, and establish a solid base for validation and production readiness. Emphasis on delivering business value through tighter CAD-to-build handoffs and clear change traceability.
June 2025 monthly performance summary for PURPL-Purdue/Turbopump: Focused on consolidating turbine CAD design updates and enabling manufacturability and accurate performance modeling. Delivered concrete CAD changes on velocity triangles, mass flow rate tuning to 1.25 lb for the turbine stator, and integration of wrenches on the kerosene casing. These changes improve design fidelity, reduce integration risk, and establish a solid base for validation and production readiness. Emphasis on delivering business value through tighter CAD-to-build handoffs and clear change traceability.
January 2025: PURPL-Purdue Turbopump delivered the Full Power Rotor V2 design upgrade, featuring larger rotor diameter, improved hub geometry, and parametrized NX CAD blades. Commit 52ddeb7defbc458f509440b7d3464ac3d6c6ccbc captured the change. No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on design optimization and integration readiness. Overall impact: enhanced propulsion performance potential and broader customer integration options, strengthening product competitiveness. Technologies/skills demonstrated: NX CAD parametric design, rotor design optimization, version control and documentation, and cross-team collaboration for hardware integration.
January 2025: PURPL-Purdue Turbopump delivered the Full Power Rotor V2 design upgrade, featuring larger rotor diameter, improved hub geometry, and parametrized NX CAD blades. Commit 52ddeb7defbc458f509440b7d3464ac3d6c6ccbc captured the change. No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on design optimization and integration readiness. Overall impact: enhanced propulsion performance potential and broader customer integration options, strengthening product competitiveness. Technologies/skills demonstrated: NX CAD parametric design, rotor design optimization, version control and documentation, and cross-team collaboration for hardware integration.
November 2024 — PURPL-Purdue/Turbopump: Delivered two CAD feature sets enabling hardware integration readiness: MiniTorch enhancements (flange, injector orifices; updated SVG/cAD binaries) and turbine rotor CAD development (full-power rotor model, interface alignment, bolt holes; blades added). No major bugs fixed this month. Impact: higher fidelity CAD models, clearer interfaces, and PDR-ready rotor design; improved traceability via granular commits. Skills demonstrated: CAD modeling, SVG/CAD data integration, rotor assembly design, PDR process familiarity, Git/version control.
November 2024 — PURPL-Purdue/Turbopump: Delivered two CAD feature sets enabling hardware integration readiness: MiniTorch enhancements (flange, injector orifices; updated SVG/cAD binaries) and turbine rotor CAD development (full-power rotor model, interface alignment, bolt holes; blades added). No major bugs fixed this month. Impact: higher fidelity CAD models, clearer interfaces, and PDR-ready rotor design; improved traceability via granular commits. Skills demonstrated: CAD modeling, SVG/CAD data integration, rotor assembly design, PDR process familiarity, Git/version control.
Summary for 2024-10: Focused on establishing CAD groundwork for turbopump components. The team initialized the MiniTorch component within the Gas Generator assembly and integrated its 3D representation into the repository, setting the stage for future feature development and simulations. No code logic changes were introduced this month; the work emphasizes model readiness, traceability, and collaboration through a dedicated commit.
Summary for 2024-10: Focused on establishing CAD groundwork for turbopump components. The team initialized the MiniTorch component within the Gas Generator assembly and integrated its 3D representation into the repository, setting the stage for future feature development and simulations. No code logic changes were introduced this month; the work emphasizes model readiness, traceability, and collaboration through a dedicated commit.
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