Atmospheric Reentry Dynamics of Conic Objects

One of the key issues in a reentry risk analysis is the calculation of the aerodynamic coefficients. This paper presents a methodology to obtain these coefficients and couple it to a code that computes re-entry trajectories considering six degrees of freedom. To evaluate the different flight conditi...

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Main Authors: J. P. Saldia, A. Cimino, W. Schulz, S. Elaskar, A. Costa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2009-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/859678