Experimental and numerical determination of micropropulsion device efficiencies at low reynolds numbers

AIAA Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 633-641

  Ketsdever, Andrew D ^a,c   Clabough, Michael T ^b,d   Gimelshein, Sergey F ^b,d   Alexeenko, Alina ^b,d  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Propulsion Direct   (United States)

^d Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MASS TRANSFER; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NOZZLES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPECIFIC HEAT; VECTORS; VISCOSITY;

AXIAL COMPONENTS; AXIAL VELOCITY; MACH NUMBER; THRUST LEVELS;

SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

EID: 15944390287     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.10284     Document Type: Article

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