A review of motivations, methods, and achievements on microgravity combustion research

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Issue		E3S Web Conf. Volume 300, 2021 2021 2^nd International Conference on Energy, Power and Environmental System Engineering (ICEPESE2021)


Article Number		01021
Number of page(s)		5
Section		Energy and Power Engineering
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202130001021
Published online		06 August 2021

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