Purpose and nature of test package to obtain flight data at re-entry velocity of 37,000 fps; function, location, and design of Be calorimeters for forebody and gold calorimeters for afterbody; methods of achieving 1-dimensional heat flow in forebody calorimeter design; optimum design for afterbody calorimeter is thermally isolated, small diameter, thin disk of high thermal conductivity; influence of thermocouple size, accuracy of thermocouple placement, heat losses, and other considerations in relation to accuracy of sensors; equations.
Considerations in design of calorimeters for project FIRE superorbital re-entry test vehicle
SAE -- Paper
SAE Meeting ; 1963 Instruments
1963
8 pages
Conference paper
English
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Considerations in Design of Calorimeters for the Project FIRE Superorbital Re-Entry Test Vehicle
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