Effect of surface roughness and radiation on graphite nozzle erosion in solid rocket motors

45th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Thakre, Piyush ^a   Yang, Vigor ^b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL EROSION; COMBUSTION SPECIES; COMPOSITE PROPELLANT; ENERGY TRANSPORT; EROSION RATES; GAS-SOLID INTERFACE; GASPHASE; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; HETEROGENEOUS REACTIONS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MULTICOMPONENTS; NOZZLE EROSION; NOZZLE SURFACE; OPERATING CONDITION; POLYBUTADIENE COMPOSITE PROPELLANTS; PROPELLANT CHEMISTRY; RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER; ROUGH SURFACES; SMOOTH SURFACE; SOLID ROCKET MOTORS; SOLID-PHASE; THERMO-FLUID DYNAMICS; TWO LAYERS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; COMBUSTION; COMPOSITE PROPELLANTS; EROSION; EXPLOSIVES; GRAPHITE; METAL ANALYSIS; METALLIZING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POLYBUTADIENES; PROPELLANTS; PROPULSION; RADIATION EFFECTS; ROCKET ENGINES; ROCKET NOZZLES; ROCKETS; STEEL METALLURGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE REACTIONS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE MODELS;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 77957830880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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