Improvement of inlet flow characteristics of LE-7A liquid hydrogen pump

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

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Uchiumi, Masaharu ^a   Konno, Akira ^a   Kamijo, Kenjiro ^b   Hashimoto, Tomoyuki ^a   Kobayashi, Satoshi ^c  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c IHI CORPORATION   (Japan)

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