Hi, I have just started college this semester as a undergraduate aerospace engineering student. I am in a writing class and our final assignment is to write a research proposal. It can be a realistic proposal that an undergraduate would actually submit, or it can be more of a high level thing, we can LARP as a CalTech professor trying to get millions of dollars from NASA. Anyway my idea is to write a proposal for researching the storage of hydrogen for use in a nuclear thermal rocket. Now I'm guessing this is more of a high level thing, and even at MIT undergraduates aren't driving that type of research. It only has to be 4-5 pages. Anyway if anyone has any resources on hydrogen storage, or a freshman's guide to writing their first research proposal, I would appreciate it. Thanks.
My initial approach was to find the gamma ray point attenuation kernel, or the degree to which gamma radiation emanating from a point attenuates as it travels a distance through a material, in this case LH2. I have the A, alpha, and Beta coefficients for the G(muS Q) equation as constants of LH2, but I'm not sure integration of the point attenuation kernel across dS is the way to go.
What approach should I use? I only know 1 MeV, and tank depth and diameter. How do I find heat gain? I am but a lowly aerospace engineer and know too little of nuclear engineering, though I have taken one class on NTP. My textbook isn't helping.
