Blunt body wave drag reduction using focused energy deposition

8th AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 1-21

  Riggins, David ^a   Nelson, H F ^a   Johnson, Eric ^a  

^a Architectural and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; DRAG REDUCTION;

AXISYMMETRIC; BASE LINE; BLUNT BODIES; CFD CODES; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; ENERGY DEPOSITIONS; HIGH POWER;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84983161960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1998-1647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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