A Simple Method for Designing a Duct for a Multi-Component Ducted Propulsion System

Subject Areas : Mechanical Engineering

N. M. Nouri ¹ , Mehrdad Kalantar Neyestanaki ² , Saber Mohammadi ³

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
2 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
3 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran

Received: 2017-05-08 Accepted : 2017-07-11 Published : 2017-11-06

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