Shuttle damage/repair from the perspective of hypersonic boundary layer transition - Experimental results

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 122-143

  Horvath, Thomas J ^a,c   Berry, Scott A ^a,c   Merski, N Ronald ^a,c   Berger, Karen T ^a,c   Buck, Gregory M ^a,c   Liechty, Derek S ^a,c   Schneider, Steven P ^b,d  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA LaRC   (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER TRANSITION; PHOSPHOR THERMOGRAPHY; SHUTTLE ORBITER;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; REPAIR; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

SPACE SHUTTLES;

EID: 33845575501     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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