Agglomeration of aluminized solid rocket propellants

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bandera, A ^a,b   Maggi, F ^a,b   DeLuca, L T ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Aerospace Engineering Department   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATE SIZES; BURNING RATE; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CHARACTERISTIC SIZE; METAL AGGLOMERATION; METAL PARTICLE; OPERATING PRESSURE; PREDICTION CAPABILITY; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; PROPELLANT SURFACES; SOLID ROCKET PROPELLANT; SPATIAL DISPLACEMENT; SPECIFIC IMPULSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWO-POINT;

AGGLOMERATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; EXPLOSIVES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROPULSION; ROCKETS; SOLID PROPELLANTS;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 77957846330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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