Fabrication and predicted performance of conical delaval micronozzles

35th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 1-12

  Ketsdever, Andrew D ^a   Wadsworth, Dean C ^b   Wapner, Phillip G ^b   Ivanov, Mikhail S ^c   Markelov, Guenadi N ^c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KHRISTIANOVICH INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PROPULSION; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; MICRO NOZZLE; NAVIER STOKES SOLUTION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PREDICTED PERFORMANCE; VISCOUS EFFECT;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84963799167     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1999-2724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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