Contamination and Micropropulsion Technology

Abstract

The growing interest in the use of microspacecraft within government and industry is driving a critical need for new propulsion systems capable of fulfilling a wide range of mission requirements. The applicability of each propulsion system is highly mission dependent and subject to system constraints. The purpose of this research was to investigate the design, fabrication, and microspacecraft systems limitations associated with the scaling of micropropulsion devices.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA564003

Entities

People

  • Andrew D. Ketsdever
  • Natalia Gimelshein
  • Sergey F. Gimelshein
  • Taylor Lilly

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Astronautics
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Engineers
  • Fabrication
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Heat Transfer
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Microelectromechanical Systems
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Propulsion Systems
  • Spacecraft
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Propulsion Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design