Pressure distribution on sabots in hypervelocity flight

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 279-284

  Guillot, Martin J ^a,b   Dick, Jason N ^a,b   Reinecke, William G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRAJECTORIES;

HYPERVELOCITY FLIGHT; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; SABOTS; SCOOP PRESSURE MODEL; SOFTWARE PACKAGE AVCO;

MISSILES;

EID: 0031140716     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3229     Document Type: Article

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