Solid Propellant Ignition and Other Unsteady Combustion Phenomena Induced by Radiation

Abstract

Experimental and analytical investigations were conducted to understand the ignition and nonsteady burning processes that occur at and near the propellant surface, to determine the connection between the ignitability of a propellant and its other nonsteady combustion characteristics, to quantify the peculiarities of radiative ignition, and to develop a means of ranking propellant ignitability. As a result of these investigations, radiative ignition processes have been explained for a wide variety of propellant and test conditions. The stability properties of heterogeneous combustion waves were considered for linear and nonlinear situations. Nonlinear (large disturbances) solid propellant stability boundaries can be immediately defined from the knowledge of the associated restoring function. The restoring function is a property strictly dependent on the nature of the solid propellant.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA052046

Entities

People

  • L. Deluca
  • L. H. Caveny
  • M. Summerfield
  • T. J. Ohlemiller

Organizations

  • Princeton University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Burning Rate
  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Combustion
  • Composite Propellants
  • Computational Science
  • Energy Transfer
  • Heat Transfer
  • Ignition
  • Laser Ignition Systems
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Optical Properties
  • Partial Differential Equations

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Rocket Propulsion.
  • Statistical inference.
  • Theoretical Analysis.