Ram accelerators: Outstanding issues and new directions

Journal of Propulsion and Power

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1170-1187

  Higgins, Andrew J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; LAUNCHING; PROJECTILES; PROPELLANTS; SEPARATION;

FLOW SEPARATION; RAM ACCELERATORS; SUPERDETONATIVE OPERATION; THRUSTS;

PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;

EID: 33845501879     PISSN: 07484658     EISSN: 15333876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.18209     Document Type: Article

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