Holographic Investigation of Solid Propellant Combustion in a Two-Dimensional Motor.

Abstract

This investigation continued the development of a method for obtaining high quality holograms of the combustion products from metallized solid rocket motor propellants burned in a two-dimensional motor to provide a cross-flow environment. The use of borosilicate side plates as a motor casting allowed good quality holograms to be obtained. With the present two-dimensional motor method there were upper limits of combustion pressure and weight percentage of aluminum where holograms could not be obtained because of excessive smoke opacity.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA153546

Entities

People

  • Y. Lee

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aluminum
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Chambers
  • Combustion Products
  • Cross Flow
  • Flow
  • Geometry
  • Holograms
  • Metals
  • Particles
  • Photographs
  • Propellants
  • Rocket Engines
  • Rockets
  • Solid Propellants
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Rocket Propulsion.