Comprehensive review of liquid-propellant combustion instabilities in F-1 engines
Abstract
Mechanisms associated with combustion instability are examined by carrying out a detailed account and analyses of the design attributes which led to dynamic stability in F-1 developmental injectors. All available full-scale component and engine test data were combined into a single data base, providing a complete genealogy of F-1 developmental injector design configurations. The basic design features and operating characteristics are discussed with emphasis on the injector and thrust chamber configurations, and modifications leading to dynamic stability are highlighted. The conditions required for optimum combustion dynamics are identified in terms of fundamental processes such as atomization, vaporization, and turbulent mixing. Various experimental and theoretical treatments are discussed in the context of full-scale test results.
- Publication:
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Journal of Propulsion and Power
- Pub Date:
- October 1993
- Bibcode:
- 1993JPP.....9..657O
- Keywords:
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- Combustion Stability;
- F-1 Rocket Engine;
- General Overviews;
- Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines;
- Performance Prediction;
- Combustion Chambers;
- High Frequencies;
- Multiphase Flow;
- Turbulent Combustion;
- Spacecraft Propulsion and Power