Societe Nationale D'etude Et De Construction De Moteurs D'aviation

Societe Nationale D'etude Et De Construction De Moteurs D'aviation-snecma

Vladimir Demtchenko

Khoze Kessaev

Vassili Zinoviev

The invention concerns an acoustic igniter for igniting a mixture of rocket fuels in a liquid propellant rocket engine combustion chamber comprising a cylindrical precombustion chamber (,) including a cylindrical wall (,) and first and second end walls (,), a rocket fuel injection nozzle (,) emerging into the precombustion chamber (,) through the first end wall (,) via an orifice of diameter d,, a rocket fuel injector (,) arranged inside said nozzle (,) along the axis thereof, at least an outlet orifice (,) of minimum diameter d,provided in the cylindrical wall (,), an acoustic resonator (,) defining a cavity opening into the precombustion chamber (,) opposite the nozzle (,), through the second end wall (,), via an orifice (,) of diameter d,. The acoustic resonator (,) is enclosed by a housing (,) which defines around the acoustic resonator (,) a closed auxiliary chamber (,) which communicates only with the precombustion chamber (,) by at least one conduit (,).

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Moscow, Russia

Vladimir Demtchenko