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Comprehensive book for practitioners as students in aeronautics, written after 33years experienced and proven in first, non commercial and French edition.
New edition with new chapters on Re-entry on Mars mission, flight quality, rarefied aerodynamics and re-entry accuracy
Exercises at solutions at the end of the book
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Ballistic reentry vehicles, capsules and planetary probes are the fastest human designed objects to fly through planet’s atmospheres. With velocities over Mach 20, RV’s have to dissipate a huge kinetic energy, and environment may exceed 100 g’s at center of mass, 100 bars stagnation pressure and 100 MW/m² on nosetip. Design of thermal protection system is a formidable material engineering problem. Vehicle conception covers large discipline realms, among which Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics are essential as they only can provide necessary aeroshell shape, mass and inertia properties and tolerances to achieve adequate environment and trajectory performance. Capsules and probes have different missions and entry conditions but approaches and methods are identical. Based on a long engineering experience, this book offers a comprehensive and state of the art analysis of aerodynamic and flight mechanic entry topics. In addition, it provides a large set of application exercises and solutions. It is addressed to university and engineering school students, as well as engineers in aerospace companies and government agencies, or simply curious readers.
Authors and Affiliations
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Civil Engineer ENST CEA/CESTA, 33114 Le Barp, France
Patrick Gallais
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Atmospheric Re-Entry Vehicle Mechanics
Authors: Patrick Gallais
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73647-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-73646-2Published: 19 October 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09281-7Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-73647-9Published: 23 September 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 354
Topics: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Automotive Engineering