An Experimental Investigation of the Combustion Behavior of Solid Fuel Ramjets.

Abstract

Limited experimental data indicated that fuel vapor composition within the SFRJ combustor may have a significant effect on the obtainable combustion efficiency and upon the dependence of combustion efficiency upon equivalence ratio and air mass flow rate. Combustor pressure oscillations in bypass operation were found to increase regression rates when using PMM fuel grains and to increase or decrease combustion efficiency depending upon equivalence ratio.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA127165

Entities

People

  • Grant Allan Begley Jr

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aeronautical Engineering
  • Air Masses
  • Air Supplies
  • Calibration
  • Chambers
  • Combustion
  • Combustors
  • Control Systems
  • Data Acquisition
  • Experimental Data
  • Flow
  • Flow Rate
  • Ignition
  • Mass Flow
  • Solid Fuels
  • United States
  • United States Naval Academy

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Rocket Propulsion.