NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and the U. S. Army are jointly investigating vortex chamber concepts for cryogenic oxygen/hydrocarbon fuel rocket engine applications. One concept, the Impinging Stream Vortex Chamber Concept (ISVC), has been tested with gel propellants at AMCOM at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. A version of this concept for the liquid oxygen (LOX)/hydrocarbon fuel (RP-1) propellant system is derived from the one for the gel propellant. An unlike impinging injector is employed to deliver the propellants to the chamber. MSFC has also designed two alternative injection schemes, called the chasing injectors, associated with this vortex chamber concept. In these injection techniques, both propellant jets and their impingement point are in the same chamber cross-sectional plane. One injector has a similar orifice size with the original unlike impinging injector. The second chasing injector has small injection orifices. The team has achieved their objectives of demonstrating the self-cooled chamber wall benefits of ISVC and of providing the test data for validating computational fluids dynamics (CFD) models. These models, in turn, will be used to design the optimum vortex chambers in the future.


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    Titel :

    Evaluation of Impinging Stream Vortex Chamber Concepts for Liquid Rocket Engine Applications


    Beteiligte:
    Trinh, Huu (Autor:in) / Kopicz, Charles (Autor:in) / Bullard, Brad (Autor:in) / Michaels, Scott (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit ; 2003 ; Huntsville, AL, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.01.2003


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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