Fine Orifice Injector Development.

Abstract

The operating characteristics of a supersonic mixing transfer chemical laser (TCL) have been experimentally determined. The performance of the TCL has been determined for a wide range of operating conditions using a fixed supersonic mixing chemical laser nozzle bank. The important parameters are: nozzle configuration; nozzle exit conditions; (exit pressure and exit temperature); composition (fluorine available for lasing, fracture of fluorine dissociated, He molar flow ratio, laser fuel flow ratio, and CO2 molar flow ratio); cavity flow conditions (cavity pressure); and resonator parameters. Most of the experimental effort reported was devoted to the DF-CO2 TCL.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA006204

Entities

People

  • J. J. Vieceli

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Lasers
  • Fluorine
  • Injectors
  • Lasers
  • Resonators

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Inertial Navigation Systems.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow