FSAPBeta
Public Beta · Free for students & nonprofits

Network flow solver for modern fluid systems engineering.

FSAP is the host of a seven-program desktop suite for liquid-rocket propulsion. Size your injector, thrust chamber, tanks, and feed lines in focused tools — then wire them together and solve the whole engine, with real propellant properties and the cited textbook physics your course already teaches. Free for educational and nonprofit use throughout the beta.

Pressure-fed workflow · injector → chamber → tanksReal propellants · LOX · N₂O · ethanol · methaloxCited physics · CEA · Bartz · ASME · Crane
Built for
The FSAP Suite

One host. Six sizers. Your whole engine.

FSAP doesn't stop at the feed system. It's the hub of a desktop suite that takes a student team from propellant choice to a complete, analyzed pressure-fed engine — size each part in its own focused tool, then drop it into FSAP and solve the system as one model. Every tool runs standalone, so you install only what you need.

New to liquid engines? Pressure-fed teams start with FSAP + OPS + INJ + TCC + TKS — the turbopump tools are there when you're ready.
What it does

A solver, not a black box.

FSAP is built around an explicit conservation formulation with a sparse Jacobian — what's happening at every node is inspectable, and every correlation has a reference. Engineers can swap models, override correlations, and verify against papers.

Steady & transient

Backward-Euler integration with SASS-style Newton-Raphson. Successive-substitution outer loop handles energy and equation-of-state coupling.

Any CoolProp fluid

Water, helium, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, methane, refrigerants, propellants. Mix fluids in a single network and let FSAP track each branch.

Two-phase & boiling

Lockhart-Martinelli and Friedel pressure drop. Chen and Shah boiling correlations for vaporizers, chilldown, and cryogenic two-phase flow.

Conjugate heat transfer

Solid nodes, ambient nodes, and solid-fluid conductors. Resolve wall temperature evolution during chilldown without an external FEA tool.

Schematic editor

Blank-canvas drag-and-drop. Connect branches between nodes, inspect every property in unit-aware fields, watch results overlay live on the network.

Headless CLI

Run any deck from the command line. Sweep parameters, drive Monte Carlo studies, and integrate FSAP into your CI for design-of-experiments work.

Where it runs

Three networks, one solver.

A few representative systems FSAP is being used to model. Every diagram below is a real, solvable deck.

Tank pressurizationtransient · 90s
GHe REG LOX TANK 90K · ramp 0→680 psi
Cryogenic chilldownconjugate HT
LN2 SOLID WALL · 300K → 80K two-phase front · Chen / Friedel OUT
Pump & recirculationsteady · NTU
PUMP HX (NTU) SINK RETURN
Free for your team during the beta.
Students, rocketry teams, schools, and nonprofit engineering orgs get the full solver at no cost — just send a request.
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