Experimental results of a vortex tube air separator for advanced space transportation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Crocker, Andrew M ^a   White, Steven M ^a   Bremer Jr , Frank ^a   Knowlen, Carl ^b   Weimer, Robert F ^c  

^a Andrews Space Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SEPARATION PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM; ON-BOARD PROPELLANTS; OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; OPERATING CONDITION; SPACE TRANSPORTATIONS; THEORETICAL MODELING;

EXPERIMENTS; OXYGEN; PROPULSION; ROCKETS; SEPARATION; TWO PHASE FLOW;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84897791997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

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