Solid Propellant Ignition and Other Unsteady Combustion Phenomena Induced by Radiation

Download or read book Solid Propellant Ignition and Other Unsteady Combustion Phenomena Induced by Radiation written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental and analytical investigations were conducted to understand the ignition and nonsteady burning processes that occur at and near the propellant surface, to determine the connection between the ignitability of a propellant and its other nonsteady combustion characteristics, to quantify the peculiarities of radiative ignition, and to develop a means of ranking propellant ignitability. As a result of these investigations, radiative ignition processes have been explained for a wide variety of propellant and test conditions. The stability properties of heterogeneous combustion waves were considered for linear and nonlinear situations. Nonlinear (large disturbances) solid propellant stability boundaries can be immediately defined from the knowledge of the associated restoring function. The restoring function is a property strictly dependent on the nature of the solid propellant.