Apparatus simulates conditions in turbine engines. Automated facility generates and measures transient and steady-state heat fluxes at flux densities from 0.3 to 6 MW/m(Sup2) and temperatures from 100 to 1,200 K. Positioning arm holds heat-flux gauge at focal point of arc lamp. Arm previously chilled gauge in liquid nitrogen in Dewar flask. Cooling water flows through lamp to heat exchanger. Used to develop heat-flux gauges for turbine blades and to test materials for durability under rapidly changing temperatures.
Heat-Flux-Measuring Facility
NASA Tech Briefs ; 14 , 8
1990-08-01
Miscellaneous
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English
NTRS | 1993
Automated Heat-Flux-Calibration Facility
NTRS | 1989
|High Heat Flux Facility Data Acquisition System
AIAA | 1995
|Heat flux measuring system Patent
NTRS | 1968
|The High Heat Flux Facility at Stennis Space Center
Online Contents | 1996