Accession Number:

AD0275339

Title:

SOLID-PROPELLANT ROCKET IGNITION SYSTEMS. II. A RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR THE SCIENTIFIC DESIGN OF IGNITERS

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

NAVAL ORDNANCE LAB WHITE OAK MD

Personal Author(s):

• SHARN,CHARLES F.

Report Date:

1961-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

26.0

Abstract:

A practical program for the design of solid-rocket igniters is developed from an evaluation of rocket-ignition processes. The evaluation consists of the derivation of igniion fundamentals from an analysis of combustion-ignition theory the determination of rocket-ignition principles from an analysis of the important processes involved and the development of anANALYTICAL, ROCKET-IGNITION MODEL TO DESCRIBE THE FUNCTION OF THE IGNITER IN THE IGNITION PROCESS. Based on the rocket-ignition model an engineering-type research program is constructed for the study of ignition in four basic phases 1 the ignition system, 2 ignitability, 3 hydrodynamic phenomena, and 4 rocket ignition. The plan is to develop quantitative and qualittive ignier-design criteria through experimental and theoretical studies of each phase and the interrelations among the phases. Author

Descriptors:

• *ROCKET IGNITERS
• FLAME PROPAGATION
• HEAT TRANSFER
• HYDRODYNAMICS
• IGNITION
• REACTION KINETICS
• RESEARCH MANAGEMENT
• ROCKET ENGINES
• SOLID ROCKET PROPELLANTS
• THEORY
• THERMODYNAMICS

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE