A Study of Wind Tunnel Simulation of High Altitude Rocket Plumes

Abstract

A review of several simple, inviscid, high-altitude rocket plume models indicated the most accurate representation. Wind-tunnel plume measurements have been used to verify the Jarvinen-Hill model and to study the plume viscous mixing layers which simulated flight conditions by matching wind tunnel and flight plume Knudsen numbers. The HAPRAP data simulate typical ICBM sustainer flight in the 120 to 320 km altitude range.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0755840

Entities

People

  • James P. Moran
  • James S. Draper

Organizations

  • Aerodyne Research

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Exhaust Plumes
  • Flow Fields
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Geometry
  • Knudsen Number
  • Mach Number
  • Measurement
  • Photography
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Reynolds Number
  • Turbulent Mixing

Readers

  • Aerospace Propulsion Engineering.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Missile Defense Systems.