Effect of wall on impulse of solid propellant driven millimeter-scale thrusters

AIAA journal

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1617-1624

  Mirels, H ^a  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; FLAME RESEARCH; HEAT LOSSES; IGNITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NOZZLES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PULSATILE FLOW; SOLID PROPELLANTS; WALL FLOW;

BACKEND IGNITION (BEI); FRONTEND IGNITION (FEI); MILLIMETER SCALE THRUSTERS;

ROCKET ENGINES;

EID: 0033354290     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.643     Document Type: Article

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