Film Cooling in a High-Pressure Subscale Combustion Chamber

By the application of film cooling in addition to regenerative cooling, a considerable reduction in thermal and structural loads of rocket combustion-chamber walls can be reached. This paper discusses important influence parameters on film cooling in terms of efficiency of the injected film and wall temperature reduction. For the experimental investigations a high-pressure subscale combustion chamber operated with the cryogenic propellant combination LOX/GH(2) was used. A gaseous film with ambient tempered hydrogen was injected in the axial direction at the face plate. Typical film-cooling parameters such as film blowing rate, velocity ratio between film injection velocity and hot-gas velocity, circumferential slot positioning, and film injection slot height were investigated systematically at the European Research and Technology Test Facility P8.