Ignition and detonation-initiation characteristics of hydrogen and hydrocarbon fuels in a PDE

Collection of Technical Papers - 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2741-2754

  Helfrich, Timothy M ^a,c,d   Schauer, Frederick R ^a,d   Bradley, Royce P ^b,e   Hoke, John L ^b,d,e  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INNOVATIVE SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS INC   (United States)

^c USAF   (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e AIAA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETONATION; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEN; IGNITION; THEOREM PROVING;

CHAPMAN-JOUGUET (CJ) WAVESPEED; DEFLAGRATION-TO-DETONATION TRANSITION (DDT) TIME; IGNITION TIMES;

JET ENGINES;

EID: 34250851782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-234     Document Type: Conference Paper

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