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Effect of model selection on combustor performance and stability predictions using ROCCID
The ROCket Combustor Interactive Design (ROCCID) methodology is an interactive computer program that combines previously developed combustion analysis models to calculate the combustion performance and stability of liquid rocket engines. Test data from 213 kN (48,000 lbf) Liquid Oxygen (LOX)/RP-1 combustor with an O-F-O (oxidizer-fuel-oxidizer) triplet injector were used to characterize the predictive capabilities of the ROCCID analysis models for this injector/propellant configuration. Thirteen combustion performance and stability models were incorporated into ROCCID, and ten of them, which have options for triplet injectors, were examined. Calculations using different combinations of analysis models, with little or no anchoring, were carried out on a test matrix of operating combinations matching those of the test program. Results of the computer analyses were compared to test data, and the ability of the model combinations to correctly predict combustion stability or instability was determined. For the best model combination(s), sensitivity of the calculations to fuel drop size and mixing efficiency was examined. Error in the stability calculations due to uncertainty in the pressure interaction index (N) was examined. The recommended model combinations for this O-F-O triplet LOX/RP-1 configuration are proposed
Combustor design and analysis using the Rocket Combustor Interactive Design (ROCCID) methodology
The ROCket Combustor Interactive Design (ROCCID) Methodology is a newly developed, interactive computer code for the design and analysis of a liquid propellant rocket combustion chamber. The application of ROCCID to design a liquid rocket combustion chamber is illustrated. Designs for a 50,000 lbf thrust and 1250 psi chamber pressure combustor using liquid oxygen (LOX)RP-1 propellants are developed and evaluated. Tradeoffs between key design parameters affecting combustor performance and stability are examined. Predicted performance and combustion stability margin for these designs are provided as a function of the combustor operating mixture ratio and chamber pressure
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Photoluminescence studies of modulation doped coupled double quantum wells in magnetic fields
We have studied the photoluminescence spectra of a series of mudulation doped couple double quantum well structures in parallel and perpendicular magnetic fields to 62 tesla at 4K and 77K, for B{parallel}a, the spectra display distinct Landau level transitions which show anti-crossing with the e1-hh1 exciton. At high fields, the lowest conduction band-valence exciton approaches the extrapolated 0- 0 Landau level. About 25 Tesla, there is valence band mixing of the e1-lh1, e1-hh2, e1-hh1 transitions. The spectral peaks display a diamagnetic shift in low in-plane magnetic fields which become linear in high fields. At magnetic fields beyond 40T, spin splitting is observed for both B{parallel}z and B{perpendicular} geometries. The partial energy gap discovered in conductance measurements in in-plane fields was not conclusively observed using photoluminescence spectroscopy, although anomalies in the energy dependence of the lowest level with magnetic field were evident at similar field values
Observation of Long-Range, Near-Side Angular Correlations in Proton-Proton Collisions at the LHC
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The Spin Structure of the Nucleon
We present an overview of recent experimental and theoretical advances in our
understanding of the spin structure of protons and neutrons.Comment: 84 pages, 29 figure
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