Parallel, steady/unsteady DSMC simulations of the aerodynamics of sounding rockets

Collection of Technical Papers - 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 11, Issue , 2007, Pages 7381-7391

  Allen, Jeffrey ^a,b   Hauser, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC OXYGEN; COUPLING OF DYNAMICS AND AURORA; ROCKET ORIENTATION; THERMOSPHERE;

AERODYNAMICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SENSORS; STEADY FLOW;

SOUNDING ROCKETS;

EID: 34250827095     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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