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Heat transfer, mass entrainment, and luminosity of bolides

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The problem of the motion of bodies in the earth's atmosphere is solved with the use of radiative gas dynamics equations. The effective enthalpy of disintegration is determined from the condition of the best approximation of the predicted trajectory to that observed.

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Institute of Mechanics at the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 64, No. 6, pp. 718–725, June 1993.

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Stulov, V.P. Heat transfer, mass entrainment, and luminosity of bolides. J Eng Phys Thermophys 64, 576–582 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01089957

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