LiH as Fuel for High Speed Propulsion

Abstract

Aim of this report is to present the physical model describing LiH "combustion", and to discuss by means of some approximated models the main topics associated with thermal fluxes, diffusion rate, lithium vaporization and combustion. To give a rough numerical estimate of the characteristic times involved in a "flight" configuration was investigated. The analysis performed has shown that LiH, when used as fuel, offer performance comparable with those of commonly used fuels such as LCH4 and LH2.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA552647

Entities

People

  • Claudio Bruno
  • Domenico Simone

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Burning Rate
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Heat Transfer
  • Latent Heat
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Thermal Conductivity
  • Thermal Diffusivity
  • Thermodynamics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Solar Physics