Proceedings of the 1968 Cryogenic Engineering Conference Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio August 19-21, 1968 /
edited by K. D. Timmerhaus.
Boston, MA :
Imprint: Springer,
1969.
Advances in Cryogenic Engineering,
14
0065-2482 ;
Invited Papers -- Cryogenics and National Goals -- A Review of the Potential of Liquid-Methane Fuel for Supersonic Transports -- Slush and Subcooled Propellants for Lunar and Interplanetary Missions -- Thermodynamic Properties -- Equilibrium Gas-Phase Compositions of Ethane and Ethylene in Binary Mixtures with Helium and Neon below 150°K and a Correlation for Deviations from the Geometric Mean Combining Rule -- The Kinetics of Adsorption of Methane and Nitrogen from Hydrogen Gas -- Benedict-Webb-Rubin Equation of State for Methane at Cryogenic Conditions -- A New Calorimeter for the Accurate Determination of the Enthalpy of Pressurized Fluids down to 160°R -- Properties of Materials -- Simultaneous Measurement of Young's Modulus and Shear Modulus at Low Temperatures -- Tensile Properties and Notch Toughness of Groove Welds in Wrought and Cast Aluminum Alloys at Cryogenic Temperatures -- Low-Temperature Mechanical Properties of Welded and Brazed Copper -- Superconductivity -- A High Field Magnet Combining Superconductors with Water-Cooled Conductors -- Large Superconducting Baseball Magnet -- Testing Composite Superconductor for the LRL Baseball Magnet -- Transient Response and Stability Limits of Superconducting Composite Wire Following a Flux Jump -- Flux-Flow Studies and Stability Criteria of Nb-Ti Strips -- The Transition to Current-Sharing in Composite Conductors -- Stability of Internally Cooled Superconductors -- Effects of Nucleate Cooling Limits on the Performance of Small Ti-Nb Solenoids -- Heat Transfer -- Non-Boiling and Film Boiling Heat Transfer to a Saturated Bath of Liquid Helium -- Boiling Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop of Liquid Helium-I under Forced Circulation in a Helically Coiled Tube -- Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer from an Oscillating Sphere in Liquid Nitrogen -- A Miniature Heat Exchanger for Simultaneous Para-Orthohydrogen Conversion and Heat Transfer -- Note on Heat Exchanger Design for Cryogenic Propellant Tanks -- A Compact Perforated-Plate Heat Exchanger -- Insulation -- Analytical Models for Airborne-Cryogenic-Insulation Thermal Performance -- Evaluation of an Externally Insulated Spacecraft Dewar -- Experimental Determination of Thermal Accommodation Coefficients -- Thermal Diffusivity of Powder Insulation -- Predictions of the Total Emissivity of Metals at Cryogenic Temperatures -- Radiative Characteristics of Cryodeposits for Room Temperature Black Body Radiation -- Fluid Dynamics -- Thermal Stratification in Closed Cryogenic Containers -- Approximate Criterion for Prediction of Flow Oscillations in Supercritical Fluid Heat Exchangers -- The Interaction of Control Valves with Oscillations Generated in a Large Water to Hydrogen Heat Exchanger -- Cavitation in Liquid Cryogens -- An Investigation of the Effects of Spatial, Thermal, and Velocity Inhomogeneities on Two-Phase, Single Component Cryogenic Choked Flow -- Two-Phase (Liquid-Vapor), Mass-Limiting Flow with Hydrogen and Nitrogen -- Instrumentation -- Cryogenic Flow Research Facility of the National Bureau of Standards -- Prelaunch Slush Hydrogen Loading Factors Affecting Instrumentation and Control -- Use of Capacitance Level Gauging for Prelaunch Loading of Slush Hydrogen -- Progress on Cryogenic Thermocouples -- Fluid Phase and Temperature Measurement with a Single Sensor -- Lighting in Cryogenic and Noncryogenic Fluids -- Refrigeration Systems -- An Analysis of the Stirling-Cycle Refrigerator -- Steady-State Operation of the Idealized Vuilleumier Refrigerator -- Compact Cryogenic Thermal Regenerator Performance -- Free Displacer Refrigeration -- Dynamical Effects of the Rhombic Drive for Miniature Cooling Engines -- Development of a Practical Thermodynamic Cycle for a Space-Borne Hydrogen Reliquefier -- A 3.6°K Reciprocating Refrigerator -- Development of Novel Gas Bearing Supported Cryogenic Expansion Turbines -- Miniature Cryogenic Refrigerator Turboalternators -- Control System for Temperatures and Liquid Level between 4.2° and 1°K -- Closed-Cycle Refrigerators for Hydrogen Targets -- Cryogenic Systems -- Solidified Oxygen for Breathing in Space -- Slush Hydrogen Pumping Characteristics Using a Centrifugal-Type Pump -- Test Results of a Zero-Gravity Cryogenic Phase Separator -- Hydrogen Peroxide Motor Exhaust Heating to Components at Cryogenic Temperatures in the Vacuum of Space -- Investigation of Propagation Failures of Flexible Linear Shaped Charges at Cryogenic Temperatures -- The Behavior of Typical Liquid Hydrogen Target Systems under Simulated Failure Modes.