Aeroheating design issues for reusable launch vehicles - A perspective

34th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Zoby, E Vincent ^a   Thompson, Richard A ^a   Wurster, Kathryn E ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERO-DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; AERO-HEATING ENVIRONMENTS; BOUNDARY-LAYER TRANSITION; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; RE-USABLE LAUNCH VEHICLES (RLV); REUSABLE LAUNCH VEHICLES; SHOCK-SHOCK INTERACTIONS; THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEM;

AERODYNAMIC HEATING; DESIGN; REUSABLE ROCKETS; TOOLS; TRAJECTORIES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84896775735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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