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Solid propellant

Solid propellant

  • 1 Progress in optical diagnostics

    A new optical method for the observation and measurement of the combustion of aluminum particles in solid propellant engines. Focused Schlieren photography has been used to validate the combustion models for aluminum particles in solid propellant engines used for missiles and launchers... Evolution of an aluminum particle in combustion leaving the surface of a solid propellant on four images taken at 1 ms intervals