The goal is to softly land high mass vehicles (10s of metric tons) on Mars. Supersonic Retropropulsion (SRP) is a potential method of deceleration. Current method of supersonic parachutes does not scale past approximately 1 metric ton. CFD is of increasing importance since flight and experimental data at these conditions is difficult to obtain. CFD must first be validated at these conditions.
Validation of OVERFLOW for Supersonic Retropropulsion
2012
37 pages
Report
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English
Validation of OVERFLOW for Supersonic Retropropulsion
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