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The facility was designed in support of the Air Force Hypersonic
Technologies (HyTech) program for long-duration, steady-state combustor
tests. Research conducted in this facility is in pursuit of technological
breakthroughs in ignition, fuel injection, and flameholding for
supersonic combustion, and will provide local experience in the
areas of high-speed propulsion systems testing and analysis. Facility
calibration is complete, and recent experiments and computations
have investigated ignition and combustion of liquid and gaseous
hydrocarbon fuels in supersonic flow. Combustion inlet conditions
simulated Mach numbers of 4-6 and dynamic pressure of 1000 psf.
Temperature, thrust, and pressure measurements were made, and visual
video records indicate an active combustion zone with rapid flame
spreading. An aerated-fuel injection experiment has been conducted
as an extension of a separate experimental program researching the
fundamental spray structure of aerated-liquid jets in a supersonic
crossflow environment.
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