A combined cycle engine test facility
- General Applied Science Laboratories Inc., Ronkonkoma, NY (United States)
Rocket-Based Combined-Cycle (RBCC) engines intended for missiles and/or space launch applications incorporate features of rocket propulsion systems operating in concert with airbreathing engine cycles. Performance evaluation of these types of engines, which are intended to operate from static sea level take-off to supersonic cruise or accerlerate to orbit, requires ground test capabilities which integrate rocket component testing with airbreathing engine testing. A combined cycle engine test facility has been constructed in the General Applied Science Laboratories, Inc. (GASL) Aeropropulsion Test Laboratory to meet this requirement. The facility was designed to support the development of an innovative combined cycle engine concept which features a rocket based ramjet combustor. The test requirements included the ability to conduct tests in which the propulsive force was generated by rocket only, the ramjet only and simultaneous rocket and ramjet power (combined cycle) to evaluate combustor operation over the entire engine cycle. The test facility provides simulation over the flight Mach number range of 0 to 8 and at various trajectories. The capabilities of the combined cycle engine test facility are presented.
- OSTI ID:
- 104470
- Report Number(s):
- AIAA-Paper-95-6152; CONF-9504202-; TRN: 9590466
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 6. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) aerospace planes and hypersonics technologies conference, Chattanooga, TN (United States), 3-7 Apr 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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