CFD evaluation of seeded and unseeded air MHD accelerators

38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Munipalli, Ramakanth ^a   Anderson, Dale A ^b   Wilson, Donald R ^b  

^a HYPERCOMP INC   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

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