Chimera simulations of supersonic flows over a complex satellite launcher configuration

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 345-355

  Basso, Edson ^a,c   Antunes, Alexandre P ^b   Azevedo, João Luiz F ^c  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE AERONÁUTICA   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAER S A   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO DE AERONÁUTICA E ESPAÇO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PRESSURE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; SATELLITES; VECTORS;

EULER FORMULATION; MACH NUMBER; SATELLITE LAUNCH VEHICLE;

SUPERSONIC FLOW;

EID: 0037821877     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3969     Document Type: Article

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