Self-confined rotating flows for containment
Axisymmetric flows with regions of closed streamlines confined by rotational inertia or electromagnetic pinch, for containment for gas core reactors
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Axisymmetric flows with regions of closed streamlines confined by rotational inertia or electromagnetic pinch, for containment for gas core reactors
Effect of buoyancy on fuel containment in open-cycle gas-core nuclear rocket engine
Design and storage tests of 200 lb diborane shipping container including storage time, volumetric loading, and pressure-temperature limitations
SNAP 8 double containment boiler evaluation for metallurgical defects
Bare refractory double containment boiler for SNAP 8 power conversion system utilizing mercury, tantalum, zirconium, and type 300 stainless steel materials
Portable direct reading spectrometer for monitoring oxygen-hydrogen containing contaminants in gas tungsten arc welding process
Liquid-vapor system in closed container, investigating transient pressure rise under heat and mass transfer interactions including incipient and nucleate boiling
Lithium-containing p-n solar cells photovoltaic performance and stability tests at room temperature
Integrated S band microstrip parametric amplifier modules with self contained Gunn effect pump oscillator for space flight applications
Unalloyed tantalum as containment material in mercury Rankine cycle SNAP 8 system boiler for 5 year service life
Reactor-shield-containment system models under impact tests, noting cracks, leaks and deformations
Partial configurational thermodynamic functions of interstitial species in ternary solid solutions containing substitutional and interstitial solute atoms
Radioactive rare gases and tritium in Apollo 12 lunar rocks and in sample return container, noting relationship to solar flare event
A preliminary study of containment systems for aircraft landing on elevated STOL-ports was conducted as part of an overall study of human acceptance problems associated with STOL operations. The study included a survey and feasibility study of different concepts and a computer analysis of four arrestment systems. The principal conclusion was that a system referred to as the FAA system appears to offer the greatest promise. In this system, standard arresting gear cables are stretched across the roof-top, at roughly 100-foot intervals, but are shielded over the 100-foot-wide primary landing strip. Thus a pilot can land with an arresting hook down, but will not contact the cable unless he swerves off the landing strip, either because he has made a bad landing, or because his landing gear has failed. It was also noted that a suitable curb or guard rail should be developed. Presently available arresting gears and nylon net barriers were considered satisfactory for the overshoot problem.
A program to design, fabricate, and test a 1-man, self-contained, electrochemical CO2 concentrating system is described. The system was designed with electronic controls and instrumentation to regulate performance, to analyze and display performance trends, and to detect and isolate faults. Ground support accessories were included to provide power, fluids, and a Parametric Data Display allowing real time indication of operating status in engineering units.
Wind tunnel tests were conducted on scale models of three rectangular shaped cargo containers to determine the aerodynamic characteristics of these typical externally-suspended helicopter cargo configurations. Tests were made over a large range of pitch and yaw attitudes at a nominal Reynolds number per unit length of 1.8 x one million. The aerodynamic data obtained from the tests are presented.
A technique has been developed for cleaning Apollo bulk sample containers using fluorine gas as the cleaning agent.
Analysis aimed at determining the scaling laws for the buoyancy effect on fuel containment in an open-cycle gas-core nuclear rocket engine, so conducted that experimental conditions can be related to engine conditions. The fuel volume fraction in a short coaxial flow cavity is calculated with a programmed numerical solution of the steady Navier-Stokes equations for isothermal, variable density fluid mixing. A dimensionless parameter B, called the Buoyancy number, was found to correlate the fuel volume fraction for large accelerations and various density ratios. This parameter has the value B = 0 for zero acceleration, and B = 350 for typical engine conditions.