COMBUSTION IRREGULARITIES OF SOLID PROPELLANTS.

Abstract

Two principal objectives were attained: (1) Investigation in depth of certain operating characteristics of the T-burner and (2) Development of a preliminary theory of L* instability, treating it as self-excited oscillatory combustion and correlating the nonacoustic instability of a class of PBAA/AP propellants by means of the theory. The work consisted largely of early stages of developing a new type of T-burner for studying acoustic instability (cylindrical, side-vented chamber burning premixed gases introduced through a permeable frit in one end) and of formulating a more general version of the theory of nonacoustic instability. Two problems, are under continuing study, to determine the acoustic admittance of the frit and to minimize chamber-coupled pressure and composition transients in the gas feed system. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0836770

Entities

People

  • Norman W. Ryan

Organizations

  • University of Utah

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Admittance
  • Combustion
  • Energetic Materials
  • Instability
  • Materials
  • Propellants
  • Solid Propellants

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Rocket Propulsion.
  • Theoretical Analysis.