Enhanced analyses of plume impingement during shuttle-Mir docking using a combined CFD and DSMC methodology

31st Thermophysics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages

  Lumpkin, Forrest E ^a   Stuart, Phillip C ^a   Le Beau, Gerald J ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GAS DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SPACE STATIONS; TRACKING (POSITION);

APPROPRIATE TECHNIQUES; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO; ENGINEERING MODELING; HIGH-FIDELITY SIMULATIONS; MIR SPACE STATION; PLUME IMPINGEMENT; SHUTTLE ORBITERS;

ORBITS;

EID: 84954097348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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