A comprehensive model to predict and mitigate the erosion of carbon-carbon/graphite rocket nozzles

Collection of Technical Papers - 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages 7642-7661

  Thakre, Piyush ^a   Yang, Vigor ^a,b,c  

^a The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

^b Department of Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS PHASES; HOMOGENEOUS CHEMICAL KINETICS; NOZZLE INLETS; SOLID ROCKET MOTORS; THERMOFLUID DYNAMICS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EROSION; GRAPHITE; PROPELLANTS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

NOZZLES;

EID: 36749034778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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