Solid fuel ramjet combustor

USH1007H · kind H · statutory invention registration

Assignee

• United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force · US

Inventors

• Klaus C. Schadow · Ridgecrest, US
• Ephraim Gutmark · Cincinnati, US
• Kenneth J. Wilson · Roseville, US

Key dates

• Grant date: Jan 7, 1992

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

In a solid fuel ramjet in which a fluid flow boundary layer extends along a urning fuel grain and receives combustible material liberated from the grain, exciting oscillations in air flowing toward the grain so that oscillations continue in the boundary layer and promote vortices in the layer to mix the air and the combustible material.