Fluid mechanics of a Mach 7-12, electron-beam driven, missile-scale hypersonic wind tunnel: Modeling and predictions

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 4026-4039

  Girgis, I G ^a   Brown, G L ^a   Miles, R B ^a   Lipinski, R J ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; OPTIMIZATION; WIND EFFECTS; WIND TUNNELS;

COMPLEXITY;

FLUID MECHANICS;

AXISYMMETRIC FLOW; DESIGN; HYPERSONIC FLOW; INVISCID FLUID; MISSILE; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 0036855631     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1501826     Document Type: Article

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