A meso-scale heat recirculating thrust chamber has been developed for use with methanol, by utilizing steam/oxygen as an oxidizer. The steam/oxygen mixture serves as a surrogate for hydrogen peroxide. The extinction regimes, discharge characteristics, and both steady state and pulsing thrust...

Within the past decade there has been a fair amount of interest in utilizing the high energy densities of hydrocarbon fuels at the small scale. The motivation for this is primarily twofold. The first application involves the generation of electricity via the heat released by combustion, in the...

A meso-scale heat recirculating combustor has been developed for the combustion of methanol and kerosene fuels with oxygen enriched superheated steam as an oxidizer. The steam oxygen mixture is a surrogate for the decomposition products of hydrogen peroxide, and as such the combustor development...