NONLINEAR ASPECTS OF COMBUSTION INSTABILITY IN LIQUID PROPELLANT ROCKET MOTORS

Abstract

Topics include: Nonlinear theoretical approaches - longitudinal and transverse modes (calculations based on the nonlinear longitudinal mode with time-lag effects, a shock wave model of unstable rocket combustors with small time-lag effects, transverse nozzle admittance relation for finite-amplitude waves); Nonlinear combustion instability mechanisms (transverse mode nonlinear rocket motor studies, longitudinal nonlinear rocket studies using the square- motor, vapor displacement mechanism - basic experiment in the pseudo rocket, basic experiments in droplet resonant phenomena); Droplet and wake burning - mechanism for combustion instability; High subsonic mach number extensions to the linearized theory; Expressions for transverse waves; Concept in rocket baffle design.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0602151

Entities

People

  • David T. Harrje
  • William A. Sirignano

Organizations

  • Princeton University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Burning Rate
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Chambers
  • Computational Science
  • Differential Equations
  • Doppler Effect
  • Equations Of State
  • Heat Transfer
  • Light Scattering
  • Light Sources
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Rocket Engines
  • Standing Waves
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Fluid Dynamics.