Numerical simulations of gel propellant flow through orifices

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Yoon, Changjin ^a   Heister, Stephen ^a   Xia, Guoping ^a   Merkle, Charles ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77957857377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-5045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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