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C. Senthilkumar
Bio: C. Senthilkumar is an academic researcher from Madras Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Propellant & Solid-fuel rocket. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 6 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on investigating "combustion instability", a phenomenon that mainly involves the interaction of the propellant flames with the acoustic oscillations prevalent in full-scale rocke...
Abstract: This paper focuses on investigating “combustion instability,” a phenomenon that mainly involves the interaction of the propellant flames with the acoustic oscillations prevalent in full-scale rocke...
9 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of acoustic pressure oscillations on mean burning rates of non-aluminized and aluminized propellants which exhibit low pressure exponent index (n) in the burning rate trends were investigated.
4 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical model was developed to capture the regression rate and simulate the combustion process of combined solid rocket motor by combining the Navies-Stokes equations with turbulence and gas-solid coupling models.
12 citations
TL;DR: Experiments have been carried out to investigate the effect of cowl length variation on performance characteristics of a single expansion ramp nozzle as mentioned in this paper, and the performance parameters were estimated for different cowl lengths.
Abstract: Experiments have been carried out to investigate the effect of cowl length variation on performance characteristics of a single expansion ramp nozzle. The performance parameters were estimated for ...
6 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of acoustic pressure oscillations on mean burning rates of non-aluminized and aluminized propellants which exhibit low pressure exponent index (n) in the burning rate trends were investigated.
4 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a rotary valve coupled in a combustor assembly can generate periodic pressure oscillations inside the combustor and can be used to study the combustion instability in the combustion chamber of a rocket engine.
4 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, an indirect method for measuring the instantaneous valve area and phase delay angle based on a circular grating system and a corresponding mathematical model was proposed, which is confirmed by several cold-gas experiments and numerical simulations.
2 citations