Effect of combustor-inlet conditions on performance of an annular turbojet combustor (open access)

Effect of combustor-inlet conditions on performance of an annular turbojet combustor

From Summary: "The combustion performance, and particularly the phenomenon of altitude operational limits, was studied by operating the annular combustor of a turbojet engine over a range of conditions of air flow, inlet pressure, inlet temperature, and fuel flow. Information was obtained on the combustion efficiencies, the effect on combustion of inlet variables, the altitude operational limits with two different fuels, the pressure losses in the combustor, the temperature and velocity profiles at the combustor outlet, the extent of afterburning, the fuel-injection characteristics, and the condition of the combustor basket."
Date: March 21, 1947
Creator: Childs, J. Howard; McCafferty, Richard J. & Surine, Oakley W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
On Stability of Free Laminar Boundary Layer Between Parallel Streams (open access)

On Stability of Free Laminar Boundary Layer Between Parallel Streams

"An analysis and calculations on the stability of the free laminar boundary layer between parallel streams were made for an incompressible fluid using the Tollmien-Schlichting theory of small disturbances. Because the boundary conditions are at infinity, two solutions of the Orr-Sommerfeld stability equations need not be considered, and the remaining two solutions are exponential in character at the infinite boundaries. The calculations show that the flow is unstable except for very low Reynolds numbers" (p. 571).
Date: March 21, 1949
Creator: Lessen, Martin
System: The UNT Digital Library