Multiphase flow simulations of solid-propellant rocket motors on unstructured grids

Collection of Technical Papers - 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 21, Issue , 2006, Pages 15648-15667

  Haselbacher, A ^a,b,c   Najjar, P M ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b 2253 Digital Computer Laboratory   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d MC 278

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; ROCKET ENGINES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DROPLET IMPACTS; LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM; UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS;

SOLID PROPELLANTS;

EID: 34250702618     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-1292     Document Type: Conference Paper

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