X-34 experimental aeroheating at mach 6 and 10

36th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Berry, Scott A ^a   Horvath, Thomas J ^a   Difulvio, Michael ^a   Glass, Christopher ^a   Merski, N Ronald ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC HEATING; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ANGLE OF ATTACK; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROL SURFACES; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; HEAT TRANSFER; NASA; REUSABILITY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SOFTWARE TESTING; THERMODYNAMICS; VEHICLES; WIND TUNNELS;

COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTIONS; CONTROL SURFACE DEFLECTION; CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES; NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER; REUSABLE LAUNCH VEHICLES; REUSABLE SPACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; SPACE TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY; SURFACE HEAT TRANSFER;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 84983119810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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