Determination of the Momentum Drag within the Turbojet Engine Laboratory While Operating the J-57-8B Turbojet Engine
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Date of Issue
1964-09
Date
1964-09
Publisher
Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
Limited tests were conducted at the USNPGS Astro /Aeronautical Propulsion
Laboratories to determine the magnitude and variation of the momentum
drag which is developed within turboject engine test chamber
while operating a J-57-8B powerplant. A survey of the aerodynamic characteristics
at the chamber inlet and the calculation of the momentum and
energy interchange at the engine exhaust plane reveal that this restric=
tive drag which penalizes the "indicated" performance of the engine is
approximately 1.07ยป of the thrust output and varies directly with the
ratio of engine thrust to secondary airflow.
Further tests will be necessary to evaluate the effects of the positioning
of the exhaust augmenter and the variation of the exhaust cooling
water flow rate upon the secondary airflow and the resulting momentum
drag. With the completion of these surveys it is anticipated that
the over-all accuracy of the facility thrust measuring system will be
t 0.50% throughout the thrust range of 1000 to 30,000 lbs.
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Technical Report
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Aeronautics
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Technical Note No. 64T-6
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