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Condensation of water vapor and carbon dioxide in the jet exhausts of rocket engines: 1. Model calculation of the physical conditions in a jet exhaust

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Model calculations have been performed for the temperature and pressure of combustion products in the jet exhaust of rocket engines of last stages of Proton, Molniya, and Start launchers operating in the upper atmosphere at altitudes above 120 km. It has been shown that the condensation of water vapor and carbon dioxide can begin at distances of 100-150 and 450-650 m away from the engine nozzle, respectively.

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  1. Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radiowave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kaluzhskoe shosse 4, Troitsk, Moscow oblast, 142190, Russia

    Yu. V. Platov

  2. Fedorov Institute of Applied Geophysics, ul. Rostokinskaya 9, Moscow, 129128, Russia

    V. V. Alpatov

  3. Federal State Unitary Enterprise Central Research Institute of Machine Construction, ul. Pionerskaya 4, Korolev, Moscow oblast, 141070, Russia

    V. Yu. Klyushnikov

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Original Russian Text © Yu.V. Platov, V.V. Alpatov, V.Yu. Klyushnikov, 2014, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2014, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 106–110.

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Platov, Y.V., Alpatov, V.V. & Klyushnikov, V.Y. Condensation of water vapor and carbon dioxide in the jet exhausts of rocket engines: 1. Model calculation of the physical conditions in a jet exhaust. Geomagn. Aeron. 54, 99–103 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793214010113

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