Lessons learned in solid rocket combustion instability

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

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages 7880-7898

  Blomshield, Fred S ^a,b,c  

^a NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b Energetics Research Division

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION INSTABILITY; SOLID PROPULSIVE SYSTEMS; SOLID ROCKET COMBUSTION;

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STABILITY; COMBUSTION CHAMBERS; LATTICE VIBRATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

SOLID PROPELLANTS;

EID: 36749035306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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