Specific Impulse and Absolute Chemical Hardness

11 September 2020, Version 1
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Abstract

The present work is dedicated to show that there are relationships between the absolute chemical hardness (η) of monopropellants and their specific impulse (Is). A total of sixteen monopropellants have been modelled and the absolute hardness obtained by quantum chemical calculations. The following equation was obtained: Is = 17.562 η + 125.551, providing specific impulse results in very good agreement with reference values.

Keywords

Specific impulse
absolute hardness,
empirical equations
semi-empirical

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