Numerical investigation of the acceleration performance of a thermally choked ram accelerator

The flow fields of the thermally choked mode of ram accelerators were studied numerically. The goal of this study was to investigate the effects of the gas reaction rate, the velocity and the projectile shapes on the performances of ram accelerators. The thermally choked mode was demonstrated to occ...

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Main Authors: Zhihong Zhuang, Xiaohui Sun, Zhihua Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-03-01
Series:Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814015573624