Characterization of nanothermite material for solid-fuel microthruster applications

Journal of Propulsion and Power

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1086-1091

  Apperson, Steven J ^a,c   Bezmelnitsyn, Andrey V ^a,c   Thiruvengadathan, Rajagopalan ^a,c   Gangopadhyay, Keshab ^a,c   Gangopadhyay, Shubhra ^a,c   Balas, Wendy A ^b,d   Anderson, Paul E ^b,d   Nicolich, Steven M ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b U S ARMY   (United States)

^c Engineering Building West ^*  (United States)

^d Building 3028   (United States)

^e Armament Research Development and Engineering Warheads Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; COPPER OXIDES; FUELS; NOZZLES;

COMBUSTION PROPERTY; CONVERGENT-DIVERGENT NOZZLE; IMPULSE CHARACTERISTICS; METALLIC FUELS; MICROPROPULSION APPLICATIONS; PACKING DENSITY; PACKING PRESSURE; SPECIFIC IMPULSE;

HEAT RADIATION;

EID: 77953551866     PISSN: 07484658     EISSN: 15333876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.43206     Document Type: Article

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