A General Method for Calculating the Specific Impulse of High Energy Propellant Mixtures

Abstract

Methods are described for calculating specific impulses of propellant mixtures. The capacity of the computer (Burroughs 220) and the availability of thermodynamic data place practical restrictions on what systems can be calculated. The calculations center around the method of White, Johnson, and Dantzig for determining the equilibrium compositions of complex mixtures. By developing and applying matrix equations which describe both the thermodynamic data and the physical equations, the programming effort was reduced. Required input data to the program are the composition of the reaction mixture, the chamber and exit pressures, and a rough estimate of the chamber temperature. All other pertinent data are retrieved from magnetic tape by the computer program. A large number of problems may be solved without manual intervention. In addition to the specific impulse, the program calculates the characteristic velocity, the chamber and exit temperatures, compositions, enthalpies and entropies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0267505

Entities

People

  • Carlos M. Bowman
  • Russell H. Foy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combustion
  • Combustion Products
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Energy
  • Enthalpy
  • Equations
  • Free Energy
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Of Formation
  • Magnetic Tape
  • Phase Transformations
  • Propellants
  • Specific Impulse
  • Thermodynamic Properties
  • Thermodynamics
  • Transition Temperature

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.