Combustion instabilities are physical phenomena occurring in a reacting flow (e.g., a flame) in which some perturbations, even very small ones, grow and...
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the combustion temperature and thus reduce the NOx emissions; however, running the combustion lean makes it very susceptible to combustion instability. The...
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Rocket engine (section Combustion instabilities)
the supersonic pressure wave formed in the combustion chamber may destroy the engine. Combustion instability was also a problem during Atlas development...
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Pogo oscillation (redirect from Pogo instability)
vibration in liquid-propellant rocket engines caused by combustion instability. The unstable combustion results in variations of engine thrust, causing variations...
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unsteady heat release process. This instability is very relevant in combustion instabilities in systems such as rocket engines, etc. A very simple mechanism...
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delayed by a month when the Titan's right engine experienced severe combustion instability at ignition that caused the entire thrust chamber to break off of...
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at least through 1965. Early development tests revealed serious combustion instability problems which sometimes caused catastrophic failure. Initially...
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Engine knocking (redirect from Detonation internal combustion engine)
fuel–air mix itself, and due to Rayleigh–Taylor instability (resulting from the hot, low-density combustion gasses expanding into the relatively cold and...
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Atlas LV-3B (section Combustion sensors)
standard D-series valve for reliability and weight-saving reasons. Combustion instability was a repeated problem in static firing tests of the MA-2 engines...
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Marble and Fred E. Culick, with a thesis on the "Sergeant rocket combustion instability problem and the associated roll torque puzzle". In 1964, Flandro...
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Hybrid-propellant rocket (section Combustion)
), density, or both. Combustion instabilities – Hybrid rockets do not typically exhibit high frequency combustion instabilities that plague liquid rockets...
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Darrieus–Landau instability Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation Clavin–Garcia equation Double diffusive convection (1944). Theory of Combustion and Detonation...
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based on regular injectors, and will very rarely present acoustic combustion instabilities, because a pintle injector tends to create a self-stabilizing flow...
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Rotating detonation engine (category Combustion)
A rotating detonation engine (RDE) uses a form of pressure gain combustion, where one or more detonations continuously travel around an annular channel...
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aerodynamic stresses. Additional failure modes include bore choking and combustion instability. Failure of an O-ring seal on the Challenger space shuttle's right...
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Aluminium – most common fuel in many classes of mixtures, also a combustion instability suppressant. Less energy per mass than carbon but less gas evolution...
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three-stage engine combustion test facility and a combustor combustion test facility. However, the problem of combustion instability in the KRE-075 burner...
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injector system, at the request of NASA, when Bell could not solve combustion instability problems. The LMAE traces its origin to the earlier Bell Aerosystems...
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1960, which suffered combustion instability and exploded on the pad. Although no specific cause for the combustion instability could be determined, the...
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in a failure shortly after takeoff, which had been caused by a combustion instability that had occurred in one of the Viking first stage engines. The...
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transition from the state of combustion noise to the state of thermo-acoustic instability. He suggested that combustion noise exhibits multifractality...
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were removed. Because the second stage engine had had issues with combustion instability, it was equipped with baffled injectors. The first stage was loaded...
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certification testing, high frequency combustion instabilities at start up were still observed. Even though the start instabilities were relatively rare at 1 in...
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sabotage was ruled out. The failure was traced to high-frequency combustion instability, which had been a problem with the RD-219 engine and was also responsible...
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flame instability that occurs in premixed flames, caused by density variations due to thermal expansion of the gas produced by the combustion process...
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caused considerable damage to Site 1/5, was traced to high frequency combustion instability in the strap-on RD-107 engines, something that would become a persistent...
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street fundraising a form of rapid drinking. a type of rocket engine combustion instability when broken down palm muting, guitar technique This disambiguation...
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much more time and money to design. Glushko never did overcome the combustion instability problems of large rocket engines using kerosene propellants; his...
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advanced research initiatives will focus on cryo-tank thermodynamics, combustion instability in hybrid rockets, and spacecraft thermal management. E-Summit by...
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immediately upon launch. Initially, the rocket motor suffered from combustion instability, which became a leading cause of early launch failures; furthermore...
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