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The possibility of steady-state operation of small-size thrusters is discussed. A more detailed study of the known frequency equation makes it possible to compose a more detailed “chart of instability” for the physical formulation considered. It turns out that combustion in a certain range of parameters v and r (characterizing the dependence of the steady-state burning rate on pressure and the dependence of the surface temperature on initial temperature) is stable in a small-size thruster and unstable in a large-size motor.
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Translated from Fizika Goreniya i Vzryva, Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 82–91, September–October, 2009.
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Gusachenko, L.K., Rychkov, A.D. & Kiskin, A.B. Analysis of the possibility of steady-state operation of a small-size solid-propellant thruster. Combust Explos Shock Waves 45, 579–587 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10573-009-0069-6
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