Coupled thermal-fluid analyses of microthruster flows

41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Alexeenko, A A ^a   Levin, D A ^a   Fedosov, D A ^a   Gimelshein, S F ^a   Collins, R J ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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