Ablation and thermal response program for spacecraft heatshield analysis

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 475-483

  Chen, Y K ^a   Milos, Frank S ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; AERODYNAMIC HEATING; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT SHIELDING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MARS 2001; MARS MICROPROBE; SATURN ENTRY PROBE; STARDUST SAMPLE RETURN CAPSULE;

SPACE PROBES;

EID: 0032637766     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3469     Document Type: Article

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