The goal of this project was to design, build, and test a small-scale supersonic combustor. After studying various fuels, acetylene was chosen because of its broad flammability limits, short ignition time and low auto-ignition temperature. A convergent-divergent nozzle designed by the Foelsch method accelerates the air stream to Mach 1.7. A premixed air/acetylene flame was ignited with a spark in a piloting-chamber. The two systems, nozzle and piloting chamber, were successfully tested.

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Creator

• Kimball, Jeramy Todd
• Choi, Taeyun Paul

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 02D263M

Advisor

• Hermanson, James C.

Year

• 2002

Date created

• 2002-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

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• In Copyright

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