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Need help sourcing viscosity and density vs temperature for JP-8 and other aviation fuels. (self.mechanical_engineering)

submitted 1 year ago by Alteon to c/mechanical_engineering

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Why is it so difficult to find a good source for this information? I can find half a dozen research papers but no real good centralized source for these things.

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[–] Redditsucks1 2 points 1 year ago

Not 100% what your looking for as they talk about blends. But they should site their source for baselines

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C14&q=jp-8+fuel+density+vs+temperatures&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&t=1690553439673&u=%23p%3DjRZHNvhnlkEJ

[–] Alteon 1 points 1 year ago

So far, this document from 1983 is the only source that I've found:

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA132106.pdf

There's no possible way that we've made advancements in fuel additives that would change the density and viscosity of these fuels....right? No possible way. /s

It'd be awesome if someone has a better source to share.

[–] Alteon 1 points 1 year ago

Found exactly what I needed:

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA429439.pdf

Handbook of Aviation Fuels (2004) - Contains Viscosity, Density, True Vapor Pressures for all currently used fuel types. I'm floored that this THE ONLY PLACE that I was able to find these charts at.