Improving metallic thermal protection system hypervelocity impact resistance through numerical simulations

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 221-231

  Poteet, Carl C ^a,b   Blosser, Max L ^a,b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Metals and Thermal Structures Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; SPACE DEBRIS; SPACE RESEARCH; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AXIAL MOMENTUM; REUSABLE LAUNCH VEHICLES (RLV); THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS (TPS); VARIANCE RATIO;

IMPACT RESISTANCE;

EID: 2342454447     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.9193     Document Type: Article

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