Steady Nuclear Combustion in Rockets (open access)

Steady Nuclear Combustion in Rockets

"The astrophysical theory of stationary nuclear reactions in stars is applied to the conditions that would be met in the practical engineering cases that would differ from the former, particularly with respect to the much lower combustion pressures, dimensions of the reacting volume, and burnup times. This application yields maximum rates of hear production per unit volume of reacting gas occurring at about 10(exp 8) K in the cases of reactions between the hydrogen isotopes, but yields higher rates for heavier atoms. For the former, with chamber pressures of the order of 100 atmospheres, the energy production for nuclear combustion reaches values of about 10(exp 4) kilocalories per cubic meter per second, which approaches the magnitude for the familiar chemical fuels" (p. 1).
Date: April 1957
Creator: Sänger, E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Solid Admixtures on the Velocity of Motion of a Free Dusty Air Jet (open access)

The Effect of Solid Admixtures on the Velocity of Motion of a Free Dusty Air Jet

"In dusty air flows occurring in industrial practice in transport by air pressure of friable materials, in the drying, annealing, and so forth, of a pulverized solid mass in suspension, and in other processes, the concentration of solid particles usually has a magnitude of the order of 1 kg per 1 kg of air. At such a concentration, the ratio of the volume of the particles to the volume of the air is small (less than one-thousandth part). However, regardless of this, the presence of a solid admixture manifests itself in the rules for the velocity distribution of the air in a dusty air flow" (p. 1).
Date: April 1957
Creator: Chernov, A. P.
System: The UNT Digital Library