Analysis of cooling-air requirements of corrugated-insert-type turbine blades suitable for a supersonic turbojet engine (open access)

Analysis of cooling-air requirements of corrugated-insert-type turbine blades suitable for a supersonic turbojet engine

From Introduction: "This report presents the cooling-air requirements of a "paper" air-cooled turbojet engine operating over a wide range of flight Mach numbers and altitudes. The results are presented for a two-stage-turbine turbo-jet engine having a turbine-inlet temperature of 2500^o R and operating at sea-level static conditions and flight Mach numbers from 0.90 to 2.5 and flight altitudes from 40,000 to 70,000 feet. In addition, the effect of decreasing the blade-inlet cooling-air temperature on the required coolant-flow ratio is presented."
Date: April 25, 1956
Creator: Ziemer, Robert R. & Slone, Henry O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical investigation of factors affecting the performance of single-stage turbines having rotor-tip discharge of cooling air (open access)

Analytical investigation of factors affecting the performance of single-stage turbines having rotor-tip discharge of cooling air

From Introduction: "The purpose of this report is to further analyze the turbine performance results of reference 1 with the objective of isolating the contribution of the cooling air to the turbine performance and establishing some systematic relation between these cooling-air effects and the turbine operational parameters."
Date: April 25, 1956
Creator: Smith, Gordon T. & Hickel, Robert O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design of two transpiration-cooled strut-supported turbine rotor blades (open access)

Design of two transpiration-cooled strut-supported turbine rotor blades

Report presenting the design details of two transpiration-cooled strut-supported turbine rotor blades. One design uses a sintered blade shell while the other uses a wire blade shell. Ideal coolant flows were found for an effective gas temperature of 1425 degrees Fahrenheit, a coolant temperature of 180 degrees Fahrenheit, and a shell temperature of 600 degrees Fahrenheit.
Date: April 25, 1956
Creator: Prasse, Ernst I.; Livingood, John N. B. & Donoughe, Patrick L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
ESTIMATE OF THE COST OF PRODUCING NITROGEN 15 BY CHEMICAL EXCHANGE: DETERMINATION OF MINIMUM COST NITROX SYSTEM (open access)

ESTIMATE OF THE COST OF PRODUCING NITROGEN 15 BY CHEMICAL EXCHANGE: DETERMINATION OF MINIMUM COST NITROX SYSTEM

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Date: April 25, 1956
Creator: Klima, B.B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of supersonic ramp-type side inlet with combinations of fuselage and inlet throat boundary-layer removal (open access)

Performance of supersonic ramp-type side inlet with combinations of fuselage and inlet throat boundary-layer removal

Report presenting an experimental investigation to evaluate combinations of fuselage and inlet throat boundary-layer removal for a ramp-type side inlet in the 8- by 6-foot supersonic wind tunnel at Mach numbers 1.5, 1.8, and 2.0. Optimum combinations of fuselage and inlet throat boundary-layer removal showed gains in available thrust from 3 to 10 percent over the case of no inlet throat bleed. Results regarding variations of diffuser total-pressure distortion, recovery and external drag coefficients, and net gains in available thrust are provided.
Date: April 25, 1956
Creator: Campbell, Robert C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Progress Report on AEC Contract on Research and Development Program on Scintillation Crystals: Period 1 January 1956 to 1 April 1956 (open access)

Progress Report on AEC Contract on Research and Development Program on Scintillation Crystals: Period 1 January 1956 to 1 April 1956

From Abstract: "This report covers the preliminary literature survey and the screening of activated cesium iodide and several alkali halides to qualitatively determine their luminerscence. The report also includes a proposal of the future work and a proposed budget for the 1957 fiscal year."
Date: April 25, 1956
Creator: Beadle, Robert
System: The UNT Digital Library
Temperature-control study of turbine region of turbojet engine, including turbine-blade time constants and starting characteristics (open access)

Temperature-control study of turbine region of turbojet engine, including turbine-blade time constants and starting characteristics

Report presenting an investigation of a turbojet engine in an altitude test facility to supplement existing data relevant to gas-temperature control in a turbojet engine. The problems associated with gas-temperature control for minimizing turbine-blade damage are considered in the report.
Date: April 25, 1956
Creator: Phillips, W. E., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library