Radiant Energy loss and its implication for the characterization of metal powders combustion in Solid Propellants. The topic is hot.
A new paper summarizes the efforts of two research centers, Texas Tech University and NSWC WD China Lake CA. Together with other partners, they produced a series of publications (see the Energetic Materials Technology section of our Literature page.
The work we reference here will be published in March 2024, but you can get a sneak peek online already.
Over the years, Prof. Michelle Pantoya and Igor Altman, PhD, and other co-workers have presented an Energy Balance-based approach to describe dust flames of Solid Propellants.
The significance of this work is high in the present time: the attention has grown around what’s ‘hypersonic’; great R&D challenges are being faces at many levels: Propellants, Thermal Management, Mechanical Resistance of structures, Electronics.
We’re very glad that Aluminum powders atomized by VALIMET, Inc. were studied in this set of works and that we can contribute to the progress of Solid Propellants.