SBIR/STTR Research Award
HIGH TEMPERATURE RAKE PROBE FOR ARC-JET TESTS
Award amount
$493,928Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1992Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Atss Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROGRAM IS TO DESIGN RAKE PROBES THAT CAN ACCURATELY MEASURE AND MAP ARC-JET EXIST PLANE FLOW QUANTITIES. THREE RAKE PROBES SHALL BE DESIGNED THAT CAN MAP OUT THE AERODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF THE TEST SECTION IN HIGH-ENTHALPY/HIGHPRESSURE ARC-JETS. THE FIRST PROBE SHALL BE A CYLINDRICAL PRESSURE/CALORIMETER RAKE THAT CAN BE SWEPT ACROSS THE TEST SECTION TO MEASURE PRESSURE, CONVECTIVE HEATING AND INFER ENTHALPY. THIS PROBE SHALL BE FABRICATED IN PHASE I. THE SECOND PROBE IS A RAKE WITH AXI-SYMMETIRIC PROBES TO CHARACTERIZE THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW BEHAVIOR OF THE TEST SECTION. THE THIRD PROBE SHALL BE USED TO INFER ENTHALPY.
Technology keywords
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