Modeling and simulation of liquid monopropellant combustion in microthrusters

Collection of Technical Papers - 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 21, Issue , 2006, Pages 16319-16324

  Wang, Yanxing ^a   Wu, Ming Hsun ^a   Yetter, Richard A ^b   Yang, Vigor ^a,b,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVEL-SET APPROACH; MICROTHRUSTERS; SMALL-VOLUME VORTEX CHAMBERS;

COMBUSTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHASE SEPARATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; THERMAL EFFECTS; VORTEX FLOW;

LIQUID PROPELLANTS;

EID: 34250706224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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