Effect of chamber pressure & propellant composition on erosion rate of graphite rocket nozzle

Collection of Technical Papers - 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages 4287-4301

  Acharya, Ragini ^a,b,c   Kuo, Kenneth K ^a,b,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 137 Research Building East ^*

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAMBER PRESSURE; EROSION RATE; GRAPHITE NOZZLE EROSION MINIMIZATION (GNEM); NOZZLE EROSION RATES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; GRAPHITE; NOZZLES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; ROCKET ENGINES;

PROPELLANTS;

EID: 34250721491     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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