Experimental heat transfer distribution on the SNAP 10A reactor

Technical Report · Fri Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 1965

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6527537· OSTI ID:6527537

Hopenfeld, J; Toews, R E

Heating distributions have been obtained for the SNAP 10A reactor by means of a thermal paint technique in the Rhodes and Bloxsom 60 in. hypersonic wind tunnel. Data and correlations are presented only for those reactor components where the ratio of the local heat transfer to that on the stagnation point of the calibration sphere was found to be independent of tunnel conditions. It is shown that these heating distributions can be applied directly to reentry conditions provided the thermally painted and the bare reactor surfaces are both catalytic to atom recombination.

• Research Organization: Atomics International Div., Canoga Park, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6527537
• Report Number(s): NAA-SR-TDR-10967
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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