Vortex chamber flow field characterization for gelled propellant combustor applications

39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Anderson, Mark ^a   Valenzuela, Rene ^b,d   Rom, Craig ^a   Bonazza, Riccardo ^a   Chiaverini, Martin J ^c  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Orbital Technologies Corporation   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL THEORY; GELLED PROPELLANTS; INJECTION VELOCITY; NAVIER-STOKES CODE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; REYNOLDS STRESS TURBULENCE MODEL; VELOCITY PROFILES; VORTEX CHAMBER FLOWS;

FLOW FIELDS; GELATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; PROPELLANTS; PROPULSION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE MODELS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84897586348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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