Combustion efficiencies in hydrocarbon-air systems at reduced pressures (open access)

Combustion efficiencies in hydrocarbon-air systems at reduced pressures

Report presenting results obtained with quiescent fuel-air mixtures and with small diffusion flames, which indicate that combustion efficiencies close to 100 percent were obtained at pressure much lower than those found in turbojet combustors at altitudes of 60,000 feet.
Date: September 13, 1950
Creator: Hibbard, Robert R.; Drell, Isadore L.; Metzler, Allen J. & Spakowski, Adolph E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Correlation of laboratory smoke test with carbon deposition in turbojet combustors (open access)

Correlation of laboratory smoke test with carbon deposition in turbojet combustors

Report presenting a correlation of carbon deposition of 19 fuels in a turbojet combustor as a function of the boiling point and of the flame height at the sooting point of the fuels in a simple wick lamp for a particular combustor operating at a single set of conditions. Two similar investigations with different combustors, operating conditions, and nine different fuels yielded similar correlations on the same graph.
Date: February 3, 1950
Creator: Busch, Arthur M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of leading-edge radius and maximum thickness-chord ratio on the variation with Mach number of the aerodynamic characteristics of several thin NACA airfoil sections (open access)

Effects of leading-edge radius and maximum thickness-chord ratio on the variation with Mach number of the aerodynamic characteristics of several thin NACA airfoil sections

Report presenting a wind-tunnel investigation to determine the effects of leading-edge radius and maximum thickness-chord ratio on the variation with Mach number of the aerodynamic characteristics of several thin symmetrical NACA 4-digit-series airfoil sections. The variations with Mach number of the lift, drag, and pitching moment for a 4-percent-chord-thick airfoil section are not significantly affected by a change of leading-edge radius from 0.18 to 0.53 percent of the chord. Results regarding the leading-edge radius effects and maximum thickness-chord ratio are provided.
Date: July 3, 1950
Creator: Berggren, Robert E. & Graham, Donald J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of air distribution on radial temperature distribution in one-sixth sector of annular turbojet combustor (open access)

Effect of air distribution on radial temperature distribution in one-sixth sector of annular turbojet combustor

Report presenting an experimental investigation in a one-sixth sector of an annular turbojet combustor to determine a method of controlling radial exhaust-gas-temperature distribution in a gas-turbine combustion chamber. The adjustment in controlling air was made by ducting the dilution air into the combustion zone in a predetermined manner through hollow radial struts or by modifying the basket-wall open-hole area. Results regarding the temperature distribution, temperature-rise efficiency, total-pressure loss, and altitude operating limits are provided.
Date: April 5, 1950
Creator: Mark, Herman & Zettle, Eugene V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altitude-Wind-Tunnel Investigation of Combustion-Chamber Performance on J47 Turbojet Engine (open access)

Altitude-Wind-Tunnel Investigation of Combustion-Chamber Performance on J47 Turbojet Engine

From Introduction: "Results are presented to indicate the effect of altitude, flight Mach number, and exhaust-nozzle-outlet area on the combustion efficiency, the losses in total pressure occurring in the combustion chamber, and the fractional loss in engine cycle efficiency resulting from combustion-chamber pressure losses. The engine cycle efficiency is also presented.These results are shown graphically as a fraction of corrected engine speed and in tabular form."
Date: December 15, 1950
Creator: Campbell, Carl E.
System: The UNT Digital Library