Spacelab experiments on combustion of heptane/hexadecane droplets

AIAA Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2327-2335

  Shaw, Benjamin D ^a,b   Clark, Bret D ^a,b   Wang, Difei ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Aeronautical Engineering ^*

^c Cheng Power Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HEAT LOSSES; HEPTANE; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; LIQUID FUELS; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; SOOT;

MOLE FRACTIONS;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 0035663002     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.1238     Document Type: Article

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