Gun tunnel flow calibration: Defining input conditions for hypersonic flow computations

Shock Waves

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 313-322

  Mallinson, S G ^a,b   Hillier, R ^a   Jackson, A P ^a   Kirk, D C ^a   Soltani, S ^a,c   Zanchetta, M ^a,d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c RENAULT   (France)

^d DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CFD; Tunnel calibration procedures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034367061     PISSN: 09381287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001930000064     Document Type: Article

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