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- Structural and competent collection of Aerothermodynamic
- Data of Space Vehicles
- Combines data from the leading space agencies such as NASA, ONERA, CNES, CIRA, NLR, VKI, EHA, DLR, ESA, ESTEC
- Written by a leading expert in the field
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The capacity and quality of the atmospheric flight performance of space flight vehicles is characterized by their aerodynamic data bases. A complete aerodynamic data base would encompass the coefficients of the static longitudinal and lateral motions and the related dynamic coefficients.
In this book the aerodynamics of 27 vehicles are considered. Only a few of them did really fly. Therefore the aerodynamic data bases are often not complete, in particular when the projects or programs were more or less abruptly stopped, often due to political decisions. Configurational design studies or the development of demonstrators
usually happen with reduced or incomplete aerodynamic data sets. Therefore some data sets base just on the application of one of the following tools: semi-empirical design methods, wind tunnel tests, numerical simulations. In so far a high percentage of the data presented is incomplete and would have to be verified.
Flight mechanics needs the aerodynamic coefficients as function of a lot of variables. The allocation of the aerodynamic coefficients for a particular flight operation at a specific trajectory point is conducted by an aerodynamic model. The establishment of such models is described in this book.
This book is written for graduate and doctoral students to give them insight into the aerodynamics of the various flight configurations. Further for design and development engineers in industry and at research institutes (including universities) searching for an appropriate vehicle shape, as well as for non-specialists, who may be interested in
this subject. The book will be helpful, too, in the case that system studies require in their concept phases the selection of suitable vehicle shapes.
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Bruckmühl, Germany
Claus Weiland
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aerodynamic Data of Space Vehicles
Authors: Claus Weiland
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54168-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-54167-4Published: 13 March 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52046-8Published: 27 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-54168-1Published: 22 February 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 355
Number of Illustrations: 134 b/w illustrations, 269 illustrations in colour
Topics: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer