Download or read book Some Problems in the Unsteady Burning of Solid Propellants written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The model of uniformly distributed combustion in the gas phase is used as the basis for examining several features of unsteady burning. As a zeroth approximation the flame zone begins at the solid-gas interface and responds linearly and quasi-statistically to changes of pressure only. Three deviations from this behavior are then examined: the combustion zone is displaced from the surface, the energy release responds to fluctuations of temperature and the response is not quasi-static. It appears that the assumption that the burning begins immediately at the surface can lead to significant changes, more important than the assumption that the energy release responds to changes of pressure only, especially in the interpretation of experimental data. The problem of nonquasi-static behavior, i.e., processes in the gas phase do not follow precisely impressed changes of pressure, is formulated as an expansion in frequency. Approximate results seem to be consistent with existing information.