Structure of flame balls at low lewis-number (SOFBALL): Preliminary results from the STS-83 and STS-94 space flight experiments

36th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Ronney, Paul D ^a   Wu, Ming Shin ^a   Pearlman, Howard G ^a   Weiland, Karen J ^b  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; EARTH (PLANET); SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE SHUTTLES;

HEAT RELEASE; LEWIS NUMBERS; MUTUAL INTERACTION; ON CURRENTS; PREMIXED GAS; SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; SPACE SHUTTLE MISSIONS; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 84983142993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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