Atomic oxygen degradation of polymeric thin films in low earth orbit

AIAA Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1525-1534

  Allegri, G ^a   Corradi, S ^a   Marchetti, M ^a   Milinchuck, V ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Obninsk State Technical University for Nuclear Power Engineering   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; KINETIC ENERGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORBITS; POLYMERS; PROBABILITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS;

ATOMIC OXYGEN; LOW EARTH ORBIT;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0041383921     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2103     Document Type: Article

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