Hypersonic Navier-Stokes comparisons to orbiter flight data

48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Candler, Graham V ^a   Campbell, Charles H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; HYPERSONIC VEHICLES; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; ORBITS; SPACE SHUTTLES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOCOUPLES; TURBULENCE MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW; WALL FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYER TRANSITIONS; COMPRESSIBILITY CORRECTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS CODES; HIGH TEMPERATURE AIR; SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY; SPALART-ALLMARAS TURBULENCE MODEL; SURFACE TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOCOUPLE MEASUREMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 78649862376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-455     Document Type: Conference Paper

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