1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456604703321

Titolo

Fundamentals of hybrid rocket combustion and propulsion [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Martin J. Chiaverini, Kenneth K. Kuo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Va., : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, c2007

ISBN

1-60086-687-5

1-60086-468-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (665 p.)

Collana

Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; ; v. 218

Altri autori (Persone)

ChiaveriniMartin J <1968-> (Martin John)

KuoKenneth K

Disciplina

629.47/52

Soggetti

Hybrid propellant rockets

Rocket engines - Combustion

Rockets (Aeronautics) - Fuel

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Chapter 1. Overview and History of Hybrid Rocket Propulsion""; ""Chapter 2. Review of Solid-Fuel Regression Rate Behavior in Classical and Nonclassical Hybrid Rocket Motors""; ""Chapter 3. Solid-Fuel Pyrolysis Phenomena and Regression Rate, Part 1: Mechanisms""; ""Chapter 4. Solid-Fuel Pyrolysis Phenomena and Regression Rate, Part 2: Measurement Techniques""; ""Chapter 5. Analytical Models for Hybrid Rockets""; ""Chapter 6. Vortex Injection Hybrid Rockets""

""Chapter 7. High-Speed Flow Effects in Hybrid Rockets""""Chapter 8. Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Hybrid Rocket Flowfields""; ""Chapter 9. Combustion Instability and Transient Behavior in Hybrid Rocket Motors""; ""Chapter 10. Metals, Energetic Additives, and Special Binders Used in Solid Fuels for Hybrid Rockets""; ""Chapter 11. Hydrogen Peroxide, Hydroxyl Ammonium Nitrate, and Other Storable Oxidizers""; ""Chapter 12. Similarity and Scaling Effects in Hybrid Rocket Motors""; ""Chapter 13. Large-Scale Hybrid Motor Testing""



""Chapter 14. Flight Testing of Hybrid-Powered Vehicles""""Chapter 15. Challenges of Hybrid Rocket Propulsion in the 21st Century""; ""Index""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790114603321

Autore

Lambert Leonard Carson

Titolo

Up from these hills [[electronic resource] ] : memories of a Cherokee boyhood / / Leonard Carson Lambert Jr. ; as told to Michael Lambert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln [Neb.], : University of Nebraska Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8032-6793-2

1-280-54710-3

9786613596208

0-8032-3770-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Indians of the Southeast

Altri autori (Persone)

LambertMichael C. <1960->

Disciplina

975.004/97557

B

Soggetti

Cherokee Indians

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-197).

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Preface; Forethought's; Smith-Lambert Family Genealogy; Roots; The Cove; Tennessee; Mentor School; Mars Hill; Going Home; Notes

Sommario/riassunto

Born into a storied but impoverished family on the reservation of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Leonard Carson Lambert Jr.'s candid memoir is a remarkable story and an equally remarkable flouting of the stereotypes that so many tales of American Indian life have engendered. Up from These Hills provides a grounded, yet poignant, description of what it was like to grow up during the 1930's and 1940's in the mountains of western North Carolina and on a sharecropper's farm in eastern Tennessee. Lambert straightforwardly describes his independent, hardworking, and stubborn parents;



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910574878303321

Titolo

Transmotion

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Kent, England], : University of Kent, 2015-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (volumes) : illustrations (colour)

Altri autori (Persone)

VizenorGerald Robert <1934->

Disciplina

818.5407

Soggetti

American literature - Indian authors

Indian authors

Indians of North America

Indian literature - United States - History and criticism

American literature - Indian authors - History and criticism

Folk literature, Indian - United States - History and criticism

Littérature américaine - Auteurs indiens d'Amérique

Écrivains des Peuples autochtones

Littérature américaine - Auteurs indiens d'Amérique - Histoire et critique

Littérature populaire indienne d'Amérique - États-Unis - Histoire et critique

Folk literature, Indian

Indian literature

Periodical

periodicals.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary collections.

Periodicals.

Périodiques.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Sommario/riassunto

"Transmotion is a biannual, fully and permanently open-access journal



inspired by the work of Gerald Vizenor. Transmotion will publish new scholarship focused on theoretical, experimental, postmodernist, and avant-garde writing produced by Native American and First Nations authors, as well as book reviews on relevant work in Indigenous Studies, and new creative work that seeks to push boundaries" -- Transmotion website, About page (viewed April 29, 2018)