Combustor Calculations

• Peform adiabatic flame temperature

calculation with full equilibrium products
– pressure = chamber pressure
– total enthalpy unchanged

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 Example Method – Gaseq

mO mH = (0.2 × 32) (0.8 × 2 )

=4
2 2

Tad
γproducts
MWproducts

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 Isentropic Expansion
• Constant γ is a very poor assumption for high
temperature rocket product gases
γ/γ-1
– can’t use p/po=(T/To)
– even worse assumption p2 p* pe
if gas is reacting
• Can still calculate isentropic
nozzle expansion for two cases p2
– flow stays in equilibrium
through nozzle (shifting equil.) h p*
– flow is frozen - composition
can not change pe
– find h (and thus
u) that matches given p and s s
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 Example Method – Gaseq

Want to examine
expansion of
products

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 Example – Frozen Chemistry

Te
• Set pe for
nozzle
γe expansion

MWe

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 Example – Shifting Equilibrium

Te • Exit
composition
γe
MWe

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