Mixing fuel particles for space combustion research using acoustics

Author:: Johnson, Jerome A.
Published:: JAN 1, 1988.
Physical Description:: 1 electronic document
Additional Creators:: Burns, Robert J. and Klimek, Robert B.

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Part of the microgravity science to be conducted aboard the Shuttle (STS) involves combustion using solids, particles, and liquid droplets. The central experimental facts needed for characterization of premixed quiescent particle cloud flames cannot be adequately established by normal gravity studies alone. The experimental results to date of acoustically mixing a prototypical particulate, lycopodium, in a 5 cm diameter by 75 cm long flame tube aboard a Learjet aircraft flying a 20 sec low gravity trajectory are described. Photographic and light detector instrumentation combine to measure and characterize particle cloud uniformity.

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GROUND SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND FACILITIES (SPACE)

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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.

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Document ID: 19880011802.
Accession ID: 88N21186.
AIME-A88-23.
NASA-TM-100295.
NAS 1.15:100295.
E-3943.

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