Interior plasma diagnostics of arcjet thrusters

Journal of Propulsion and Power

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1070-1076

  Cappelli, Mark A ^a,b,c   Storm, P Victor ^a,b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b High Temp Gasdynamics Laboratory

^c AIAA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC PROPULSION; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; FLOW MEASUREMENT; NOZZLES; PERFORMANCE; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA FLOW; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PROPELLANTS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

ARCJET THRUSTERS; INTERIOR PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; STATIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY THROUGHPUT;

ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0030287060     PISSN: 07484658     EISSN: 15333876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.24145     Document Type: Article

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