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The injection of fuel and oxidizer in high pressure rocket combustion chambers is simulated in a model experiment dedicated to investigate the phenomenology of coaxial injection at supercritical pressures. Cryogenic nitrogen is injected in a pressurized reservoir of N2 at ambient temperature at 4 Mpa and 6 Mpa, above the critical pressure for nitrogen of 3.4 Mpa. The radial density distribution of the N2 is determined by spontaneous Raman-scattering, from the measured densities temperature distributions are derived. The radial density and temperature pro les are analyzed as a function of the distance from the injector for x/D = 1 to 30. The influence of density gradients, internal field effects and interference effects on the performance of the Raman technique when applied to turbulent high density flows is discussed.
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Received: 5 August 1998/Accepted: 10 January 1999
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Oschwald, M., Schik, A. Supercritical nitrogen free jet investigated by spontaneous Raman scattering. Experiments in Fluids 27, 497–506 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003480050374
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003480050374