Atmospheric Re-Entry Vehicle Mechanics

• Main Author: Gallais, Patrick (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Vibration.; Dynamical systems.; Dynamics.; Automotive engineering.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control.; Automotive Engineering.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Classical Mechanics
• Topography and Gravitation
• Models of Atmosphere
• Aerodynamics
• Inertial Models
• Changing of Reference Frame
• Exoatmospheric Phase
• Six Degree-of-Freedom Reentry
• Zero Angle of Attack Reentry
• Decay of Initial Incidence
• End of the Convergence of the Incidence
• Roll-lock-in Phenomenon
• Instabilities
• Reentry Errors.