Numerical simulation of ablation for reentry vehicles

Collection of Technical Papers - 9th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 14-25

  Ayasoufi, A ^a   Rahmani, R K ^a   Cheng, G ^a,b   Koomullil, R ^a,b   Neroorkar, K ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION PROBLEMS; PYROLYSIS GASES; REENTRY VEHICLES; SURFACE RECESSION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER ABLATION; POROSITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PYROLYSIS; REENTRY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

AEROSPACE VEHICLES;

EID: 33845538116     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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