Feasibility study and demonstration of an aluminum and ice solid propellant

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wood, Tyler D ^a,c   Pfeil, Mark A ^a   Pourpoint, Timothee L ^a   Tsohas, John ^a   Son, Steven F ^a   Connell Jr , T L ^b,d   Risha, Grant A ^b   Yetter, Richard A ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM PARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HIGH SURFACE AREA; HYDROGEN GENERATIONS; ICE MIXTURES; IGNITION TEMPERATURES; NANO SCALE; NANO-SIZED; OTHER APPLICATIONS; OUTSIDE DIAMETER; UNDERWATER PROPULSION SYSTEMS; WATER REACTION;

ALUMINUM; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; EXPERIMENTS; EXPLOSIVES; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; MARINE ENGINEERING; SHIP PROPULSION; SOLID PROPELLANTS; SOUNDING ROCKETS;

ICE;

EID: 77957848734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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