Modeling of crew exploration vehicle re-entry ablation flows

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Titov, E V ^a   Kumar, R ^a   Levin, D A ^a   Larin, M E ^b   Anderson, Brian P ^c  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b JACOBS TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTER SHOCKS; CREW EXPLORATION VEHICLES; LAYER FLOW; MATERIAL RESPONSE; RAREFIED FLOW; REENTRY TRAJECTORIES; THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEM;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CRACKS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; REENTRY; WAKES;

INLET FLOW;

EID: 78649959849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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