Metal combustion in high-speed flow

43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit - Meeting Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 6813-6823

  Tanguay, Vincent ^a,b,c   Batchelor, Patrick ^a,b   El Saadi, Ramzi ^a,b   Higgins, Andrew ^a,b,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Mechanical Engineering   (Canada)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; METAL ANALYSIS; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; SHOCK WAVES; SUPERSONIC FLOW;

OXIDIZERS; REACTIVE METALS; SURFACE LUMINOSITY;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 30744465097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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