Experimental supersonic combustion research related to hypersonic airbreathing propulsion has been actively underway at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) since the mid-1960s. This research involved experimental investigations of fuel injection, mixing, and combustion in supersonic flows and numerous tests of scramjet engine flowpaths in LaRC test facilities simulating flight from Mach 4 to 8. Out of this research effort has come scramjet combustor design methodologies, ground test techniques, and data analysis procedures. These technologies have progressed steadily in support of the National Aero-Space Plane (NASP) program and the current Hyper-X flight demonstration program. During NASP nearly 2500 tests of 15 scramjet engine models were conducted in LaRC facilities.
Experimental Supersonic Combustion Research at NASA Langley
2004
28 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Combustion & Ignition , Jet & Gas Turbine Engines , Fluid Mechanics , Supersonic combustion , Research program , Air breathing , Ramjet engines , Internal combustion engines , Computational fluid dynamics , Fuel injection , Supersonic flow , Hypersonic flow , Engine tests , Mach number , Test facilities , Demonstration program
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