Plume modeling and application to Mars 2001 Odyssey aerobraking

8th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Chavis, Zachary Q ^a   Wilmoth, Richard G ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; HEAT TRANSFER;

DENSITY SURFACES; DSMC SIMULATION; FLIGHT DATA; MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR; MARS ODYSSEY; PLUME EFFECTS; PLUME FLOWFIELD; PLUME MODEL;

AEROBRAKING;

EID: 85088718706     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2002-2896     Document Type: Conference Paper

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