Aeroheating predictions for X-34 using an inviscid-boundary layer method

36th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Riley, Christopher J ^a   Kleb, William L ^a   Alter, Steven J ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Lockheed Martin Engineering and Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CODES (SYMBOLS); HEATING RATE; HYPERSONIC VEHICLES; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REUSABILITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TURBULENT FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYER METHODS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; LAMINAR AND TURBULENT FLOW; RADIATIVE EQUILIBRIUM; RELAXATION ALGORITHM; REUSABLE LAUNCH VEHICLES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEM;

HYPERSONIC BOUNDARY LAYERS;

EID: 84982318009     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1998-880     Document Type: Conference Paper

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