Propulsion mechanism of catalytic microjet engines

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 40-48

  Fomin, Vladimir M ^a   Hippler, Markus ^a,b   Magdanz, Veronika ^a   Soler, Lluís ^a,c   Sanchez, Samuel ^a,c   Schmidt, Oliver G ^a,d,e  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^d CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e CENTER FOR ADVANCING ELECTRONICS DRESDEN CFAED   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catalytic microjets; Micromotors; Modeling; Physics; Propulsion; Self assembled microtubes; System performance

Indexed keywords

ENGINES; MICROMOTORS; MODELS; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; PHYSICS; PROPULSION; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

GEOMETRIC ASYMMETRIES; LINEAR DRAG FORCE; MICRO JET; MICRO-TUBES; PROPULSION MECHANISMS; SELF-PROPULSION; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODELING;

JETS;

EID: 84894485417     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2013.2283929     Document Type: Article

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