SOLID PROPELLANT COMBUSTION INSTABILITY: OSCILLATORY BURNING OF SOLID ROCKET PROPELLANTS

Abstract

Contents: The occurrence of combustion instability in solid propellant rocket motors; The morphology of combustion oscillations; Theories of elemental processes in combustion instability - a literature survey; A detailed discussion of pressure coupling with the surface flame zone; Experimental studies on the nature of the pressure - surface flame coupling; Consideration of possible experiments to measure acoustic admittance; Acoustic admittance and entropy waves; Experimental apparatus; Experimental results; Damping mechanism studies; Conclusions and future experiments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0634278

Entities

People

  • Martin Summerfield
  • R. H. Woodward Waesche

Organizations

  • Princeton University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Waves
  • Acoustics
  • Boundary Layer
  • Burning Rate
  • Cameras
  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Chemistry
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Products
  • Composite Propellants
  • Heat Transfer
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Measurement
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Telemetry Equipment

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Theoretical Analysis.