Mechanism of dynamic instability of a reentry capsule at transonic speeds

AIAA Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2467-2475

  Teramoto, Susumu ^a   Fujii, Kozo ^b  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OSCILLATIONS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; REENTRY; SPACECRAFT; STABILITY; TRANSONIC AERODYNAMICS; UNSTEADY FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

DYNAMIC INSTABILITY; FIXED PITCH ANGLE; FLOW ANALYSIS; FORCED PITCHING OSCILLATION; REENTRY CAPSULE; REVERSE FLOW; RING VORTEX; TRANSONIC SPEEDS; VORTEX STRUCTURE;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036942669     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.1590     Document Type: Article

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