Coaxial Jets Subjected to External Acoustics

Abstract

Modern rockets operate at supercritical pressures with respect to propellants. There is a need to understand mixing and combustion beyond liquid and gas states. Shear coaxial injectors are a common choice for cryogenic liquid rocket engines. Interactions of transverse acoustics with an injector's own modes and mixing need to be understood in terms of combustion instability. There is a need to understand the differences in response to pressure and velocity nodes. There is a need to understand what non-dimensional numbers capture the mixing of typical injectors, and to characterize how geometry affects mixing. In this presentation, relevant physics of shear coaxial jets are explored; highlights from literature review are listed; and experimental set-ups are described.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 20, 2011
Accession Number
ADA554882

Entities

People

  • Ann Karagozian
  • Douglas G. Talley
  • Ivett Leyva
  • Jeff Graham
  • Juan Rodriguez
  • Sophonias Teshome

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Waves
  • Acoustics
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Combustion
  • Creep
  • Crystal Lattice Vibrations
  • Geometry
  • Injectors
  • Instability
  • Literature
  • Literature Surveys
  • Modal Analysis
  • Physics
  • Rocket Engines
  • Rockets
  • Thickness
  • Transverse

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Rocket Propulsion.
  • Theoretical Analysis.