Pressure-geometry scaling for chemical laser performance

The use of pressure-geometry scaling allows a tradeoff to be made between power flux and lasing mode length in chemical lasers, while the desired specific power is maintained. This significantly simplifies experimental and theoretical performance evaluation tasks, by reducing a three-parameter family of variables to a two-parameter one. The scaling analysis is conducted through the application of the flowfield aerokinetics-radiation conservation equations and constitutive relations; the results obtained are then verified by means of the numerical solution of the governing equations.