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This volume is published in honor of Corrado Casci; distinguished international figure devoted to scientific study, research, teaching, and leadership. It is the compilation of contributions by world-renowned scientists on the cutting-edge of the field of aerospace propulsion. These scientists have put together topics that cover a wide range of research in this field. The five main areas covered are: combustion, liquid sprays, computational fluid dynamics, turbomachinery and power cycles, and flight dynamics. Both researchers and practitioners in industry, as well as students (post-graduate level) will find this volume most appealing.

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Author:   Gianfranco Angelino ,  Luigi De Luca ,  William A. Sirignano
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   1991 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.650kg
ISBN:  

9780387974170

ISBN 10:   0387974172
Pages:   375
Publication Date:   06 March 1991
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I. Combustion.- 1. Mechanics of Turbulent Flow in Combustors for Premixed Gases.- 2. A Pore-Structure-Independent Combustion Model for Porous Media with Application to Graphite Oxidation.- 3. Stabilization of Hydrogen-Air Flames in Supersonic Flow.- 4. Thermodynamics of Refractory Material Formation by Combustion Techniques.- 5. Catalytic Combustion Processes.- 6. Stability of Ignition Transients of Reactive Solid Mixtures.- 7. Combustion Modeling and Stability of Double-Base Solid Rocket Propellants.- 8. Combustion Instabilities and Rayleigh’s Criterion.- II. Liquid Sprays.- 9. On the Anisotropy of Drop and Particle Velocity Fluctuations in Two-Phase Round Gas Jets.- 10. Unsteady, Spherically-Symmetric Flame Propagation Through Multicomponent Fuel Spray Clouds.- III. Computational Fluid Dynamics.- 11. Efficient Solution of Compressible Internal Flows.- 12. An Upwind Formulation for Hypersonic Nonequilibrium Flows.- 13. Numerical Methodologies for the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations for Two-Phase Flows.- IV. Turbomachinery and Power Cycles.- 14. Convective Heat Transfer with Film Cooling Around a Rotor Blade.- 15. Unsteady Flow in Axial Flow Compressors.- 16. Organic Working Fluid Optimization for Space Power Cycles.- V. Flight Dynamics.- 17. Highly Loaded Turbines for Space Applications: Rotor Flow Analysis and Performance Evaluation.- 18. Perspectives on Wind Shear Flight.

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