Fundamental modeling and thermal performance issues for metallic thermal protection system concept

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 195-206

  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

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER; OPTIMIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMOANALYSIS;

MACH NUMBER; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; REUSABLE LAUNCH VEHICLES (RLV); THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS (TPS);

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 2342612848     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.9182     Document Type: Article

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