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AbstractThe combustion chamber temperature and pressure in many liquid rocket, gas {urbin|, and diesel engines are quite high and can reach above the critical point *¥ the injected fuels and/or oxidizers. A high pressure chamber is used to investigate and understand the nature of the interaction between the injected fluid and the environment under such conditions. Pure N 2 , He, and 0 2 fluids are injected. Several chamber media are selected including, N 2 , He, and mixtures of CO+N 2 . The effects of chamber pressure ranging from a subcritical (i.e.*elative pressure, P r = P/Pinjeoantcridca! 1) value|"at a supercritical chamber temperature (i.e.^ relative temperature T r = TAr injectam critical >1) are photographically observed and documented near the injector hole exit region using a CCD camera illuminated by a shortduration back-lit strobe light. At low subcritical chamber pressures, the jets exhibit surface irregularities that amplify downstream, lookjggintact, shiny, but wavy (sinuous) on the surface mimS evenwglly break up into irregularly-shaped small entities./^urther increase of chamber pressure causes formation of many small droplets on the surface of the jet ejecting away only within a narrow region below the critical pressure of the injected fluid similar to a second wind-induced liquid jet breakup regime. Raising the chamber pressure, transition into a full atomization regime is inhibited by rejghing near, but slightly lower than, ^"critical pressure «fthe injectant where both surface tension and heat of vaporization are sufficiently reduced. The jet appearance changes abruptly at this point and remains the same «ter resemb}£a?turbulent gas jet injection. In this region, and within the imaging resolution limitation, no droplets are seen forming and/or departing from the jet. The jet initial total divergence angle, indicating initial growth or spreading rate, is extracted from a large set of images and plotted along with ^"available data on liquid fuel injection in £ diesel engine environment, turbulent incompressible, supersonic, and variable-density jets and for incompressible but variable-density turbulent mixing layers, thus quantitatively strengthening the gas-jet like appearance. Considering this agreement, the inhibition of Tfc*-transition to atomization regime and its confirmation through the examined atomization criteria, and the visual lack of any drop; the relevancy of current injection models and some drop vaporization/combustion results under conditions where...