X-33 aerothermal design environment predictions: Verification and validation

34th Thermophysics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Prabhu, Dinesh K ^a   Wright, Michael J ^a   Marvin, Joseph G ^a   Brown, James L ^b   Venkatapathy, Ethiraj ^a  

^a ELORET CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; NASA; TURBULENCE MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND TUNNELS;

AEROTHERMAL ENVIRONMENTS; DESIGN ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; LAMINAR AND TURBULENT FLOW; NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER; TURBULENT FLOW COMPUTATION; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES; VERIFICATION-AND-VALIDATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 85085775555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2000-2686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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