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An evaporation of kerosene and water was investigated based on convective heat transfer in the experimental setup simulating a typical volume of the fuel tank of the launch vehicle. Basic criteria of similarity used in choosing the design parameters of the setup, parameters of the coolant and model liquids, were numbers of Reynolds, Prandtl, Biot, and Nusselt. The used coolants were gases, including air and nitrogen; in addition, at the stage of preliminary experiments, products of combustion of hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) were considered. Boundary conditions were taken for the liquid located on the plate in the form of “drop” and at its uniform film spread in the experimental model setup. On the basis of experimental investigations, the temperature values were obtained for the system “gas-liquid-wall”, and areas of mass transfer surface and heat transfer coefficients of “gas-liquid” and “gas-plate” were determined for coolants (air and nitrogen) and for liquids (water and kerosene). The comparative analysis of the obtained results and the known data was carried out. Proposals for experiments using coolants based on HTPB combustion products have been formulated.
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The work was financially supported by the RF Ministry of Education and Science within the public contract with subordinate educational organizations, the project “Improvement of environmental safety and economic efficiency of launch-vehicles with cruising liquid rocket engines”, application No. 9.1023.2017/PCh.
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Trushlyakov, V.I., Lesnyak, I.Y. & Galfetti, L. An experimental investigation of convective heat transfer at evaporation of kerosene and water in the closed volume. Thermophys. Aeromech. 24, 751–760 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869864317050109
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