Olstad W. Entry Heating and Thermal Protection

AIAA, New York, 1980. — 381 p. — ISBN 0-915928-38-8.The era of space exploration and utilization that we are witnessing today could not have become reality without a host of evolutionary and even revolutionary advances in many technical areas. Thermophysics is certainly no exception. In fact, the interdisciplinary field of thermophysics plays a significant role in the life cycle of all space missions from launch, through operation in the space environment to entry into the atmosphere of Earth or one of Earth's planetary neighbors. This volume presents a collection of papers originally presented at either the AIAA 17th Aerospace Sciences
Meeting or the AIAA 14th Thermophysics Meeting dealing with two of the most difficult and dissimilar problems of entry heating and thermal protection yet to be encountered.