About 500 experimental heat transfer data taken from the open literature and relevant to the most thermally solicited area (i.e., the throat region) of liquid rocket engine thrust chambers, are collected and manipulated. This collection is the outcome of a thorough and exhaustive survey of the available experimental data of hot-fire tests produced to date. Among the test cases reported in the literature, only those with a throat heat transfer that is not affected by laminar flow, evident soot deposition, or intended non-uniform propellant injection are collected. The heat transfer is typically measured in terms of wall heat flux and temperature. Sometimes the heat transfer coefficient, which is a combination of these two terms, is provided. Each collected heat transfer measurement is supplied with data relevant to the specific operative condition of the considered test case, as well as the configuration of the adopted thrust chamber and propellant injector. Among the different considered propellant combinations, most of the experiments are made burning oxygen-hydrogen or oxygen-kerosene. Experiments made using mildly heated and compressed air, although not a rocket propellant, are also considered because of their relevance to the problem of interest. The collected dataset, called the primary dataset, is numerically elaborated to create a secondary dataset that is more thorough and consistent than the primary one. In fact, also thanks to the adoption of a suitable hot-gas flow modeling, the secondary dataset contains elaborated data that are not always available in the selected open-literature as well as the non-dimensional numbers that are associated with the heat transfer and are typically used in regression rules, like the Nusselt and the Stanton numbers. The datasets presented in this manuscript are discussed and used to find heat transfer regressions in the research manuscript "Overview and analysis of the experimentally measured throat heat transfer in liquid rocket engine thrust chambers", Acta Astronaut. 184 (2021), 46-58 [1].
Keywords: Experimental heat transfer; Hot-gas side heat transfer; Liquid rocket engines; Nusselt and Stanton numbers; Thrust chamber throat.
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