Program for the estimation of spacecraft aerodynamic properties

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fuller, John D ^a   Tolson, Robert H ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ORBITS;

AERODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO; GEOMETRIC SHAPE; GEOMETRY DESIGNS; MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITERS; NUMERICAL PROCEDURES; PROCESSING SPEED; PROCESSING TIME;

MATLAB;

EID: 78549270160     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-728     Document Type: Conference Paper

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