A GENERAL FORMULATION AND SOLUTION OF CHEMICAL RATE EQUATIONS FOR USE IN NON-EQUILIBRIUM COMBUSTION STUDIES,

Abstract

As part of a study of non-equilibrium combustion related to rocket propulsion, a general formulation and solution of chemical rate equations was developed. Product composition change with time for arbitrarily selected homogeneous gas-phase chemical reactions is calculated. A particular reaction mechanism can be constructed through the selection of elementary reactions. A computer program was developed which translates these elementary reactions into the required reaction rate equations. The solution of these equations for the isothermal case also is described. Additionally, a systematic procedure for the collection, sorting, and use of reaction rate data is presented. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0658004

Entities

People

  • Peteris Purgalis
  • Robert F. Sawyer

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arrhenius Equation
  • Burning Rate
  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Combustion
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Endothermic Reactions
  • Equations
  • Reaction Mechanisms
  • Rocket Propulsion

Fields of Study

  • Chemistry

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Computer Science.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)