Reacting flow CFD model of throttling in the Army's impinging stream vortex engine

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Nusca, Michael J ^a   Mathis, Nathan P ^b,c   Michaels, R Scott ^b,c  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b US Army Aviation and Missile Command   (United States)

^c AMSRD AMR PS PT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION CHAMBERS; ENGINES; GAS DYNAMICS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); MACHINE DESIGN; PROPELLANTS; PROPULSION; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; THERMODYNAMICS; VORTEX FLOW;

ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORIES; COMBUSTION CONTROL; COMBUSTION PATTERNS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS CODES; FUTURE COMBAT SYSTEMS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS; HYPERGOLIC IGNITIONS; VARIABLE SPECIFIC-HEAT;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 77957852868     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-4836     Document Type: Conference Paper

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