Liquid rockets and propellants [[electronic resource] ] : a selection of technical papers based mainly on a symposium of the American Rocket Society ... / / edited by Loren E. Bollinger, Martin Goldsmith, Alexis W. Lemmon, Jr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781701403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Academic Press, 1960
• ISBN: 1-60086-475-9; 1-60086-256-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (698 p.)
• Collana: Progress in astronautics and rocketry ; ; v. 2
• Altri autori (Persone): BollingerLoren E; GoldsmithMartin; LemmonAlexis W
• Disciplina: 629.4222
• Soggetti: Liquid propellant rockets
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Liquid Rockets Committee and Propellants and Combustion Committee""; ""Contributors to Volume 2""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""A. Simulated High-Altitude Testing of Rockets""; ""Experimental Investigation of Exhaust Diffusers for Rocket Engines""; ""Summary of Experience in the Use of Exhaust Diffusers for Rocket Testing""; ""Short Diffuser for Testing Rocket Nozzles""; ""A Large Rocket Ejector System""; ""Development of an Exhaust Diffuser for Ground Testing Rocket Engines""; ""B. Instrumentation for Combustion Instability""; ""Instrumentation for Research on Combustion Instability in Solid-Propellant Rocket Motors""""Some Instrumentation for Combustion Stability Research""; ""An Integrated Combustion Instability Recording and Analysis Installation""; ""High Frequency Pressure Instrumentation for Rocket Instability Studies""; ""Instrumentation for Studies of Unstable Burning Phenomena""; ""C. Liquid Propellant Combustion""; ""Monodisperse Spray Deflagration""; ""A Two-Wavelength Interferometric Technique for the Study of Vaporization and Combustion of Fuels""; ""An Experimental Study of RP-1, UDMH and N[sub(2)]H[sub(4)] Single-Droplet Burning in Air and in Oxygen""""D. Reaction Kinetics""; ""The Reaction of Diborane and Oxygen under Explosive and Pre-Explosive Conditions""; ""Consideration of Hydrazine Decomposition""; ""Detonability of Ozone and Nitric Oxide""; ""Nonequilibrium Chemical Recombination Effects in Exhaust Nozzle Flow: An Approximate Method""; ""Spectroscopic Techniques for the Determination of Flame Temperatures: Total Radiation Techniques""; ""Production and Properties of Liquid Ozone and Liquid Ozone-Oxygen Mixtures, A Review""; ""E. Propellant Selection""""Liquid Propellant Comparison Based on Vehicle Performance""; ""Comparative Applicability of Storable Propellants: Effects of Specific Impulse and Density""; ""F. Rocket Engine Design""; ""Investigation of a Gas-Driven Jet Pump for Rocket Engines""; ""Analysis of Pressure Feasibility Limits in Regenerative Cooling of Combustion Chambers for Large-Thrust Rockets""; ""Fabrication, Structural and Heat Transfer Considerations of Electroformed Rocket Nozzles""; ""Design of Catalyst Packs for the Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide""; ""Variable Thrust Rocket Engines""; ""Starting Transients of Hypergolic Bipropellant Rockets""""Analysis of a New Concept Rocket Nozzle""