Energy Contributions Associated with Combustion Instability.

Abstract

The investigation of new and novel laboratory test techniques for determining the acoustic energy contributions of burning propellants will be pursued. Emphasis will be on methods that provide a more direct measurement than presently employed. Initial effort will be focused on methods for directly determining the response of solid propellant combustion to incident acoustic pressure waves. If successful, the method, or methods, for pressure-coupled measurement will be modified to provide direct velocity-coupled response measurements. These methods are expected to lower the cost of characterizing the acoustic combustion response of solid propellant formulations of interest to the Navy and to provide improved accuracy of measurement.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1981
Accession Number
ADA108137

Entities

People

  • H. B. Mathes

Organizations

  • Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Waves
  • Burning Rate
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Stability
  • Computers
  • Digital Computers
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Frequency
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Propellant Grains
  • Propellants
  • Rocket Engines
  • Rocket Propulsion
  • Solid Propellants
  • Wave Phenomena
  • Waveguides

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Rocket Propulsion.
  • Systems Analysis and Design