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I just got the book "Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion",
mostly on the recommendations found in the sci.space.tech archives. I turned to Appendix 2 to find tables with specific heat vs temp for the various gases that you find in a rocket engine (O2, CO2, CH4, H2, H2O, that sort of thing). Hooray! Imagine my disappointment when I noticed that the tables were specifically for gases at low pressure -- 1 atm. That pressure doesn't come up very often in simulations of rocket engines and hypervelocity guns. I've looked on the web, but have not found a reference for specific heats of these gases at high pressures. I'm mostly interested in the 100 - 1000 atm range. Am I just being stupid or unread? Is there some bog-standard adjustment that I'm supposed to make to these specific heats to account for pressure? Or did some guy in 1886 prove that specific heats are completely independent of pressure? |
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