Application of a new numerical solver to the simulation of MPD flows

36th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Sankaran, K ^a   Choueiri, E Y ^a   Jardin, S C ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; MAGNETOPLASMA; PROPULSION;

ANOMALOUS TRANSPORT; CONSERVATION FORMS; EQUATION OF STATE; FIELD EQUATION; MAGNETOPLASMADYNAMIC; MAGNETOPLASMADYNAMIC THRUSTERS; NUMERICAL SOLVERS; REALISTIC SIMULATION;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 84895970199     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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