Hypersonic test facilities available in Western Europe for aerodynamic/aerothermal and structure/material investigations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1759, 1999, Pages 2227-2248

  Vennemann, Dietrich ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arc heater; High enthalpy; Induction heater; Shock tunnel

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346968425     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0429     Document Type: Article

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