Progress in Modeling Missile Fuel Venting and Plume Contrail Formation (Postprint)

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss progress made in extending specialized missile plume codes to analyze more generalized problems entailing varied missile propulsive flow field phenomena. Problems of interest include those of fuel venting and plume contrail formation. To analyze such processes, gas/liquid modeling is being incorporated that includes primary and secondary breakup, and vaporization/condensation physics. This is being performed at an engineering level and overall progress in extending plume codes to analyze these processes will be described. Exemplary problems described include those of both gaseous and liquid fuel venting, application of unified secondary breakup and vaporization of a liquid fuel venting problem, and, contrail formation in a generic missile plume.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA469698

Entities

People

  • G. Feldman
  • J. D. Chenoweth
  • J. J. York
  • K. W. Brinckman
  • S. M. Dash

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Burning Rate
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Chemistry
  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Condensation
  • Condensation Trails
  • Critical Temperature
  • Engineering
  • Equations Of State
  • Heat Energy
  • Liquid Jets
  • Thermodynamics
  • Transition Temperature
  • Transitions
  • Vaporization

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Systems Analysis and Design