Toward the Engineering Feasibility of the Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Rocket

Physics & Astronomy

• rockets 100%
• engineering 65%
• propellants 28%
• propulsion 28%
• storable propellants 25%
• Mars exploration 21%
• space storage 20%
• high thrust 20%
• high impulse 19%
• hydrazines 17%
• nuclear fuel elements 17%
• liquid fuels 17%
• specific impulse 16%
• rotating cylinders 16%
• centrifugal force 15%
• nuclear fuels 14%
• viability 13%
• liquids 13%
• ammonia 12%
• uranium 12%
• methane 11%
• heat transfer 9%
• heat 8%
• simulation 4%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• propellant 80%
• engineering 56%
• liquid 40%
• Mars 20%
• uranium 19%
• heat transfer 19%
• thrust 19%
• ammonia 17%
• methane 16%
• simulation 9%
• modeling 9%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Rockets 94%
• Hot Temperature 42%
• Propellants 28%
• Propulsion 16%
• Hydrazine 12%
• Liquids 11%
• Uranium 10%
• Liquid fuels 10%
• Ammonia 9%
• Methane 8%
• Heat transfer 5%