PRESSURE ENERGY EXCHANGE PRINCIPLE

Abstract

Pressure energy exchange principles are investigated. These studies are directed toward achieving temperatures of the order of 10,000 R in substantial amounts of uncontaminated, high pressure air, and higher temperatures in small amounts of air. A system using high pressure air to raise the temperature of a charge of air by rapid compression up to 200 atmospheres is being used for experimental studies. Also being investigated is a system which uses a column of water at velocities up to two hundred feet per second to compress a charge of air. A brief description of both systems and the preliminary results from the first few experimental tests are included in this Technical Note. A theoretical development of conditions resulting from shock heating of the charge gas is presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0260082

Entities

People

  • Charles E. Pax
  • Harold E. Wright
  • John E. Minardi

Organizations

  • University of Dayton

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Control Panels
  • Control Systems
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Flow
  • Heat Loss
  • Heat Transfer
  • High Energy
  • High Pressure
  • Instrumentation
  • Mach Number
  • Shock Tubes
  • Shock Waves
  • Storage Tanks

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Plasma Physics.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.