Abstract: The permeability characteristics and tensile strength of a porous material developed from stainless-steel corduroy wire cloth for use in transpiration-cooled walls where the primary stresses are in one direction were investigated. The results of this investigation are presented and compared with similar results obtained with porous sintered metal compacts. A much wider range of permeabilities is obtainable with the wire cloth than with the porous metal compacts considered and the ultimate tensile strength in the direction of the primary stresses for porous materials produced from three mesh sizes of wire cloth are from two to three times the ultimate tensile strengths of the porous metal compacts.

Abstract: Cooling data from this experimental afterburner are successfully correlated over a range of Reynolds number based on the distance downstream of the leading edge of the porous wall. Calculations based on the correlation indicate that the combustion-chamber cooling-air requirements for an exhaust-gas temperature of 3700° R are only 16 percent of the air required for conventional forced-convection cooling. The cooling-air requirements were nearly independent of flight condition, but close control of cooling-air pressure is required at high flight speeds.

Abstract: An experimental investigation was conducted to obtain information on air-flow uniformity and pressure-level effects for various meshes of stainless-steel corduroy wire cloth, and permeability and strength data for a 20- by 20-mesh stainless-steel wire cloth. It was found that close control of the wire cloth thickness yielded sufficiently uniform air flow and that available methods may be used to predict the effect of pressure level. Permeability and strengths of the 20- by 20-mesh wire cloth were similar to those already available from other meshes. The reduced tensile strength of the 20- by 20-mesh wire cloth in the direction of the primary stresses is one and a half to three times as great as the strength of the best porous sintered materials presently available.

A total of 2519 annotated references to the unclassified report literature is presented. Subjects covered under heat transfer and fluid flow include radioinduced heating; boiling; boiler, evaporators, pump, and heat exchanger design; hydrodynamics; coolants and their properties; thermal and flow instrumentation; high temperature materials; thermal properties of materials; and thermal insulation. Subjects covered less completely include thermodynamics; aerodynamics; high temperature corrosion; corrosion specific to heat transfer systems; erosion; mass transfer; corrosion film formation and effects; coolant processing and radioactivity; radiation effects of heat transfer materials; and pertinent data of thermonuclear processes. Subject, report number availability, and author indexes are given.