Chemical erosion of refractory metal nozzle inserts in solid-propellant rocket motors

46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Thakre, Piyush ^a   Yang, Vigor ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAMBER PRESSURE; CHEMICAL EROSION; CHEMICAL KINETICS; COMBUSTION SPECIES; CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; ENERGY BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ENERGY EQUATION; EROSION RATES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLAME DYNAMICS; FLAME TEMPERATURES; GAS-SOLID INTERFACE; GASPHASE; HETEROGENEOUS REACTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS SURFACE REACTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW MELTING TEMPERATURES; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MULTICOMPONENTS; NOZZLE EROSION; NOZZLE GEOMETRIES; NOZZLE SURFACE; OPERATING CONDITION; OXIDIZING SPECIES; PROPELLANT CHEMISTRY; REACTING SYSTEM; SOLID ROCKETS; SOLID-PROPELLANT ROCKET MOTORS; THERMO-FLUID DYNAMICS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; COMBUSTION; EROSION; HEAT CONVECTION; METALLIZING; MOLYBDENUM; PHASE INTERFACES; PROPELLANTS; REACTION KINETICS; REFRACTORY MATERIALS; RHENIUM; ROCKET ENGINES; ROCKETS; SURFACE REACTIONS; TUNGSTEN;

ROCKET NOZZLES;

EID: 65649122528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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