An integrated aeroramp injector/plasma-igniter for hydrocarbon fuels in a supersonic flow: Part A: Experimental studies of the geometric configuration

10th AIAA/NAL-NASDA-ISAS International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Jacobsen, L S ^a   Gallimore, S D ^a   Schetz, J A ^a   O'Brien, W F ^a   Goss, L P ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INNOVATIVE SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS INC   (United States)

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