Influence of ambient pressure on aerospike nozzle base pressure

  • Junwei Li*
  • , Yu Liu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In order to understand the influence of ambient pressure on aerospike nozzle base pressure, the implicit NND (non-oscillation, no free coefficients dissipative) scheme was employed to solve the 2-D laminar N-S equations. Aerospike nozzle flow fields under different CNPR(i.e. nozzle pressure ratio) without base secondary flow and with secondary flow of 1.4% mass flux rate were obtained. The result shows that with the increase of ambient pressure, base pressure also increases. But under closed wake, the increase is slow; under open wake, the increase is rapid and even the pressure fluctuates.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)663-667
Number of pages5
JournalBeijing Hangkong Hangtian Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Volume29
Issue number8
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2003
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Base pressure
  • Numerical computation
  • Plug nozzles
  • Rocket engines

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