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Duct flow nonuniformities study for space shuttle main engine
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Thoenes, J. |
| Copyright Year | 1985 |
| Description | To improve the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) design and for future use in the development of generation rocket engines, a combined experimental/analytical study was undertaken with the goals of first, establishing an experimental data base for the flow conditions in the SSME high pressure fuel turbopump (HPFTP) hot gas manifold (HGM) and, second, setting up a computer model of the SSME HGM flow field. Using the test data to verify the computer model it should be possible in the future to computationally scan contemplated advanced design configurations and limit costly testing to the most promising design. The effort of establishing and using the computer model is detailed. The comparison of computational results and experimental data observed clearly demonstrate that computational fluid mechanics (CFD) techniques can be used successfully to predict the gross features of three dimensional fluid flow through configurations as intricate as the SSME turbopump hot gas manifold. |
| File Size | 4564317 |
| Page Count | 129 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19860013161 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t0kt1k89p |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1985-08-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Spacecraft Propulsion And Power Manifolds Turbine Pumps Computational Fluid Dynamics Reynolds Number Space Shuttle Main Engine Pressure Distribution Flow Characteristics Models Pressure Measurement Design Analysis Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
