NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Mean pdf

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Mean

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Combustion instability in solid rocket motors and liquid engines has long been a subject of concern. Many rockets display violent fluctuations in pressure, velocity, and temperature originating from the complex interactions between the combustion process and gas dynamics. Recent advances in energy based modeling of combustion instabilities require accurate determination of acoustic frequencies and mode shapes. Of particular interest is the acoustic mean flow interactions within the converging section of a rocket nozzle, where gradients of pressure, density, and velocity become large. The expulsion of unsteady energy through the nozzle of a rocket is identified as the predominate source of acoustic damping for most rocket systems. Recently, an approach to address nozzle damping with mean flow effects was implemented by French [1]. This new approach extends the work originated by Sigman and Zinn [2] by solving the acoustic velocity potential equation (AVPE) formulated by perturbing the Euler equations [3].

The present study aims to implement the French model within the COMSOL Multiphysiscs framework and analyzes one of the author’s presented test cases

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 10/8/2014
• Year: 2014
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), FLOW CHARACTERISTICS, ROCKET ENGINES, ROCKET NOZZLES, DAMPING, COMBUSTION STABILITY, GAS DYNAMICS, ACOUSTIC VELOCITY, SOUND WAVES, COMPUTATIONAL AEROACOUSTICS, Fischbach, Sean

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