Flammability limits and probability density functions in simulated solid-fuel ramjet combustors

Journal of Propulsion and Power

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 643-650

  Liou, Tong Miin ^a,b   Lien, Wan Yih ^a,b   Hwang, Po Wen ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Dept of Pwr Mechanical Engineering ^*  (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; COMBUSTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLAME RESEARCH; FLAMMABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SOLID PROPELLANTS;

FLAMMABILITY LIMITS; SOLID FUEL RAMJET COMBUSTORS; TURBULENCE MODELS;

RAMJET ENGINES;

EID: 0031237854     PISSN: 07484658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.5229     Document Type: Article

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