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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    Title :

    LiH as Fuel for High Speed Propulsion


    Contributors:
    C. Bruno (author) / D. Simone (author)

    Publication date :

    2011


    Size :

    74 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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