Transpiration cooling of rocket engines

摘要

A rocket engine having a combustion chamber with a chamber inner wall, a throat with a throat inner wall, and a nozzle with a nozzle inner wall is provided. The chamber inner wall is a vacuum plasma sprayed metal, the throat inner wall is a vacuum plasma sprayed metal, and the nozzle inner wall is a vacuum plasma sprayed metal. The porosity of the vacuum plasma sprayed metal varies in an axial direction of the engine.