Air pressure effect on propulsion with transversly excited atmospheric CO2 laser

AIAA Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 136-141

  Pakhomov, Andrew V ^a,c,d   Lin, Jun ^a,c,d   Tan, Rongqing ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Department of Physics ^*  (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e Institute of Electronics

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM TARGETS; ATMOSPHERIC CO2 LASERS; COUPLING COEFFICIENTS; MASS REMOVAL RATES;

AERODYNAMICS; ALUMINUM; DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTIONS; LASER PULSES; PROPULSION; SOLID PROPELLANTS;

CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS;

EID: 31344473202     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.11580     Document Type: Article

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