Modeling unburned propellant droplet distribution and velocities in plumes of small bipropellant thrusters

35th AIAA Thermophysics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Larin, Max ^a   Lumpkin, Forrest ^b   Stuart, Phil ^b  

^a Hernandez Engineering Inc   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

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