[AR] Re: Hybrid regression

  • From: Steen Eiler Jørgensen <steen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 16:58:32 +0200

Den 15-09-2014 16:53, Keith Henson skrev:
 
> On the other hand, transparent to IR is not a good idea. I remember
> vaguely a story about someone who tried a transparent fuel grain in a
> hybrid. Dust in the fuel grain absorbed enough heat to blow chunks of
> fuel out. KH 
 
I remember a case where a transparent hybrid fuel grain transmitted
radiation to the inner wall of the combustion chamber, where it was
absorbed, resulting in the heating of the chamber and subsequent melting
of the grain from the outside.

/steen


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