Combustion characteristics of energetic HAN/Methanol-based monopropellants

38th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Chang, Y P ^a   Josten, J K ^a   Zhang, B Q ^a   Kuo, K K ^a   Reed, Brian D ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATED ADIABATIC FLAME TEMPERATURE; COMBUSTION BEHAVIOR; COMBUSTION CHARACTERISTICS; COMBUSTION PRO-CESS; ENERGETIC FORMULATIONS; LIQUID MONOPROPELLANTS; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE; SHARP INCREASE;

MONOPROPELLANTS; PROPELLANTS; PROPULSION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 84896693803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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