LABORATORY STUDIES OF ROCKET PLUME RADIATION AT REDUCED PRESSURE

Abstract

Laboratory studies were conducted about the spatial and spectral distribution of rocket plume radiance at simulated altitudes. Motors of 150 to 200 lb thrust were operated at sea level and at pressures equivalent to approximately 50,000 and 100,000 ft. The propellant combinations studied were gasoline/oxygen, RP 1/OXYGEN, JP 4/oxygen, UDMH/N2O4 and aluminized solid propellant. A traversing rocket technique was employed which permitted simultaneous observation of a number of radiometric and spectrometric properties of a common area of the plume. The graphical presentations of these data are interpreted on a qualitative and semi-quantitative basis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0273435

Entities

People

  • J. W. Sutton

Organizations

  • Boeing

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Altitude
  • Altitude Chambers
  • Chambers
  • Detectors
  • Fuels
  • Instrumentation
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Propellants
  • Radiation
  • Rocket Engines
  • Scattering
  • Sea Level
  • Solid Propellants
  • Telemetry Equipment

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Rocket Propulsion.