タイトル | Aerobraking in a dusty Martian atmosphere |
著者(英) | Tauber, Michael; Chang, I-Dee; Papadopoulos, Periklis |
著者所属(英) | NASA Ames Research Center; Stanford Univ. |
発行日 | 1990-06-01 |
言語 | eng |
内容記述 | The effects of dust particle impacts on the erosion of the heat shield were estimated for a 26 m diameter aerobraking vehicle entering the Mars atmosphere at 8.6 km/sec. An explicit Navier-Stokes code was used to compute the flow field about the vehicle for the actual Martian atmospheric composition at a speed of 7.5 km/sec. The deceleration and melting of the dust particles within the forebody shock-layer was computed for dust spherules having initial diameters from 3 to 10 microns. Two heat shield materials were considered: Shuttle tiles with glassy surfaces and a low-density ablator known as Avcoat. |
NASA分類 | ASTRODYNAMICS |
レポートNO | 90A38403 AIAA PAPER 90-1700 |
権利 | Copyright |