Flow inside a solid rocket motor with relation to nozzle inlet ablation

AIAA Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1324-1332

  Shimada, Toru ^a,c,d   Sekiguchi, Masumi ^b,e   Sekino, Nobuhiro ^b,f  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b IHI CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e Engineering Department   (Japan)

^f Technologies Development Department   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMFERENTIAL DIRECTION; NOZZLE INLET ABLATION; SURFACE RECESSION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EROSION; INTAKE SYSTEMS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NOZZLES; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SOLID PROPELLANTS;

ROCKET ENGINES;

EID: 34347238179     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.22952     Document Type: Article

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