An Analysis of Mechanisms Underlying Flow Unsteadiness in Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser Mixing Systems

Abstract

3-dimensional Navier-Stokes simulations of chemical oxygen-iodine laser (COIL) hardware are performed to elucidate the unsteady fluid dynamic aspects of these flowfields. Reacting (COIL) and non-reacting flow simulations are performed on varying resolution grids to explore the unsteadiness and comparisons to experimental data are made.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 12, 2006
Accession Number
ADA446370

Entities

People

  • Timothy J. Madden

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Boundary Layer
  • Chemical Lasers
  • Chemical Oxygen Iodine Lasers
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Gas Flow
  • Lasers
  • Mach Number
  • Simulations
  • Steady State
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics.
  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy