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Current Aerocapture Technical References
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AIAA-2003-4655 Trailing Ballute Aerocapture: Concept and Feasibility Assessment

AIAA-2003-4952 Preliminary Aerothermodynamics of Titan Aerocapture Aeroshell

AIAA-2003-4951 Aerocapture Simulation and Performance for the Titan Explorer Mission

AIAA-2003-4956 Planetary Probe Mass Estimation Tool Development and its Application to Titan Aerocapture

AIAA-2003-4799 Titan Aerocapture Systems Analysis

AIAA-2003-4804 Guidance Algorithms for Aerocapture at Titan

AIAA-2003-4955 Structural Design of the Titan Aerocapture Mission

AIAA-2003-4953 An Analysis of the Radiative Heating Environment for Aerocapture at Titan

AIAA-2003-4954 Thermal Protection Concepts and Issues for Aerocapture at Titan

AIAA-2004-0484 The Impact of Flowfield-Radiation Coupling on Aeroheating for Titan Aerocapture

AIAA-2004-0486 Aeroheating Analysis for the Afterbody of a Titan Probe

Comparison of Methods to Compute High-Temperature Gas Viscosity

Collision Integrals for Ion-Neutral Interactions of Nitrogen and Oxygen

AIAA-2004-2456 Analysis of Afterbody Heating Rates on the Apollo Command Modules, Part 1: AS-202

AIAA-2004-2469 N2-CH4-AR Chemical Kinetic Model for Simulations of Atmospheric Entry to Titan

Lemmerman, L., Wercinski, P., "Small Neptune Orbiter Using Aerocapture," Space Technology and Applications International Forum, (STAIF-97), Albuquerque, NM, Jan. 1997

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codez/plans /SSE00plan.pd

Kos, L. et. al., "In-space Integrated Space Transportation Activity - Neptune Orbiter Mission Briefing," NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, April 2001

Tauber, M., Wercinski, P., Henline, W., Paterson, J., and Yang, L., "Uranus and Neptune Atmospheric Entry Probe Study," Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 799-805, Sept-Oct., 1994

Lasher, L., Wilson, K. and Greif, R., "Radiation From an Isothermal Hydrogen Plasma at Temperatures Up To 40,000 K," Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory 6-76-66-17 Revised July 1967

Nelson, F. and Goulard, R., "Equilibrium Radiation From Isothermal Hydrogen-Helium Plasmas," Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Vol. 8, 1968, pp. 1351-1372

Tauber, M. and Wakefield, R., "Heating Environment and Protection During Jupiter Entry," Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 8, No. 6, June 1971, pp. 630-636.

Marvin, J. and Pope, R., "Laminar Convective Heating and Ablation in the Mars Atmosphere," AIAA Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1967, pp. 240-248.

Wright, M. J., Candler, G. V., and Bose, D., "A Data-Parallel Line Relaxation Method for the Navier-Stokes Equations," AIAA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 9, 1998, pp. 1603-1609.

Olynick, D. R., Henline, W. D., Hartung-Chambers, L., and Candler, G. V., "Comparisons of Coupled Radiative Navier-Stokes Flow Solutions with the Project Fire II Flight Data," AIAA Paper No. 94-1955, June 1994.

MacCormack, R.W. and Candler, G.V., "The Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations Using Gauss-Seidel Line Relaxation," Computers and Fluids, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1989, pp. 135-150.

Yee, H.C., "A Class of High-Resolution Explicit and Implicit Shock Capturing Methods," NASA TM 101088, 1989.

Olejniczak, J. and Fletcher, D.G., "An Experimental and Computational Study of the Freestream Conditions in an Arc-Jet Facility," AIAA Paper No. 2000-2567, June 2000.

Wright, M. J., Sinha, K., Olejniczak, J., Candler, G. V., Magruder, T. D., and Smits, A. J., "Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Double-Cone Shock Interactions," AIAA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 12, 2000, pp. 2268-2276.

Wright, M. J., Loomis, M., and Papadopoulos, P., "Aerothermal Analysis of the Project Fire II Afterbody Flow," AIAA Paper No. 2001-3065, June 2001.

Baulch, D.L., et. al., "Evaluated Kinetic Data for Combustion Modeling," Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, Vol. 21, No. 3, 1992, pp. 411.

Chen, Y.-K. and Milos, F., "Implicit Ablation and Thermal Response Program for Spacecraft Heatshield Analysis", Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 36, No. 3, May-June 1999, pp 475-483.

Laub, B. and Beck, R. A. S., "Development of Baseline Response Model for Carbon Phenolic", Contract No. GS-23F-010K, ITT Aerotherm, Mountain View, CA 94043, Oct. 2000.

   
   
   
   
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