Date of Award
Summer 9-1996
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering
Department
Aerospace Engineering
Committee Chair
L. L. Narayanaswami
Committee Member
Tej Gupta
Committee Member
R. L. Reisbig
Abstract
This study is concerned with the investigation of the behavior of a hypersonic nozzle with finite rate chemistry. First, equations describing steady one dimensional flow through a nozzle are presented. Solution methodologies for frozen, equilibrium and detailed chemistry flow are then discussed. A hydrogen-air chemical reaction mechanism, which is made up of fourteen different chemical species, and forty nine chemical reactions is used in this investigation for obtaining detailed chemistry flow solutions. The investigation also performs a sensitivity analysis on the reaction mechanism. Results from this may be used to eliminate a particular reaction from the chemical reaction mechanism that does not significantly affect it. Solutions for all three flows (frozen, equilibrium, and detailed chemistry ) and sensitivity analysis are obtained from separate computer programs.
Scholarly Commons Citation
Paul, Guillermo Jose Hernandez, "Behavior of a Hypersonic Nozzle Using Finite Rate Chemistry" (1996). Master's Theses - Daytona Beach. 242.
https://commons.erau.edu/db-theses/242
