Radiation and roughness effects on the thermochemical erosion of ablative materials in rocket nozzles

51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Turchi, Alessandro ^a   Bianchi, Daniele ^a   Thakre, Piyush ^b   Nasuti, Francesco ^a   Yang, Vigor ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; EROSION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; RADIATION EFFECTS; ROCKET NOZZLES; ROCKETS; TURBULENCE MODELS;

METALLIZED PROPELLANTS; NAVIER-STOKES FLOW SOLVER; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; RADIATIVE HEAT FLUXES; RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER; SPALART-ALLMARAS TURBULENCE MODEL; THERMO-CHEMICAL EROSION; THERMOCHEMICAL ABLATIONS;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 85088339288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2013-186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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