Fletcher L. Aerodynamic Heating and Thermal Protection Systems

AIAA, New York, 1978. — 441 p. — ISBN 0-915928-23-X.The present volume contains a selection of studies dealing with aerodynamic heating and thermal protection systems. The papers were drawn from the AIAA 15th Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Los Angeles, Calif, in January 1977 and the AIAA 12th Thermophysics Conference in Albuquerque, N. Mex. in June 1977,and were revised and updated especially for this volume. They have been grouped into three chapters: aerothermal environment, plume radiation, and thermal protection systems.