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Transverse mixing hypersonic wedge nozzle chemical laser

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6588962
The reactants in a chemical laser are mixed to effect a lasing action by expanding one reactant through a relatively large primary nozzle in such a way as to form an expanding reactant flow field whose free expansion is essentially two dimensional in character and occurs predominantly in directions parallel to a given plane (expansion plane) parallel to the flow path of the flow field, and injecting the other reactant into this expanding flow field in such a way that mixing of the reactants occurs by predominantly molecular diffusion of the second reactant into the first reactant flow field in directions transverse to the flow field expansion plane.
Assignee:
TRW Inc
Patent Number(s):
US 4237429
OSTI ID:
6588962
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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