Simulation of unsteady hypersonic combustion around projectiles in an expansion tube

Shock Waves

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 167-177

  Yungster, S ^a   Radhakrishnan, K ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemically reacting flow; Oblique detonation wave; TVD and BDF numerical schemes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035594741     PISSN: 09381287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00004073     Document Type: Article

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