Ammonium perchlorate (AP) is a common oxidizer in composite propellants, and its combustion behavior can be tailored by micro- nano-metal oxide catalysts. pellets were manufactured with nano-titanium iron at several mass loadings (0–3%) to isolate their effects on AP. The samples burned from 3.45 34.5 MPa (500–5000 psi) constant-volume strand bomb. Microscopy characterization was completed for ...

Effects of water depth, burn duration, and diesel fuel concentration on the relationship between recovery of marsh vegetation, soil temperature, and oil remediation during in-situ burning of oiled mesocosms were investigated. The water depth over the soil surface during in-situ burning was a major factor controlling recovery of the salt marsh grass, Spartina alterniflora. Ten centimeters of wat...

Many of the largest wildfires in US history burned in recent decades, and climate change explains much of the increase in area burned. The frequency of extreme wildfire weather will increase with continued warming, but many uncertainties still exist about future fire regimes, including how the risk of large fires will persist as vegetation changes. Past fire-climate relationships provide an opp...

The increasing demand for high energy density fuels and the concern for their safety have propelled research in the field of gelled propellants, where understanding the combustion of single gelled fuel droplets is the first stage to predict the spray combustion characteristics. The experiments utilized single-isolated freely falling gelled unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) droplets instead...

the relationship between productivity of economic sectors, effective real exchange rate, and purchasing power is a burning economic issue. based on the “balassa – samuelson” theory, higher economic productivity for tradeable goods leads to an increase in effective real exchange rate which is indicative of higher value of domestic money and higher purchasing power of money. the purpose of this s...

Hybrid propulsion, consisting of solid fuel and liquid oxidizer, exhibits major advantage regarding safety, development costs, energetic performance, controllability. Hence, it has been considered for space other propulsion programs. One the characteristic features hybrid motors, that may be disadvantage, is their relatively low thrust due to regression rate typical polymeric fuels. This resear...