Development of a flexible framework for hypersonic navier-stokes shuttle orbiter meshes

34th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Alter, Stephen J ^a   Reuther, J James ^b   McDaniel, Ryan D ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE VEHICLES; DAMAGE DETECTION; FLOW SIMULATION; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; MESH GENERATION; NASA; ORBITS; SPACE PLATFORMS; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMES RESEARCH CENTERS; COMPUTATIONAL VOLUME; FLEXIBLE FRAMEWORK; INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT; JOHNSON SPACE CENTER; NAVIER STOKES FLOW; SHUTTLE ORBITER COLUMBIA; STRUCTURED GRID GENERATION;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 85086491959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2004-2635     Document Type: Conference Paper

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