Experimental investigation of gelled fuel with high vapor pressure species and metal additives

44th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Desyatkov, Anat ^a   Madlener, Klaus ^b,c   Ciezki, Helmut K ^b,d   Natan, Benveniste ^a,e  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c Ramjet Propulsion and Phys Chem Laboratories Group   (Germany)

^d Ramjet Propulsion and Phys Chem Laboratories   (Germany)

^e Missile Propulsion Laboratory   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; GELATION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; METAL FUELS; VAPOR PRESSURE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

COMBUSTION EFFICIENCIES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FUEL MATRIX; JET A-1; METAL ADDITIVES; METAL PARTICLE; SPRAY AND COMBUSTION; VOLATILE COMPOUNDS;

FUEL ADDITIVES;

EID: 77957839790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-4873     Document Type: Conference Paper

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