Analysis of afterbody heating rates on the Apollo command modules, part 1: AS-202

37th AIAA Thermophysics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Wright, Michael J ^a   Prabhu, Dinesh K ^b   Martinez, Edward R ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b ELORET CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; FUNCTION OF TIME; GEOMETRIC DIFFERENCE; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; NON-CONTINUUM EFFECTS; SURFACE OIL FLOW; THREE DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS;

CALORIMETERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

HEATING;

EID: 84897585367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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