Entry Vehicle Heating and Thermal Protection Systems : Space Shuttle, Solar Starprobe, Jupiter Galileo Probe.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Editorial Committee -- List of Series Volumes -- Chapter I. Space Shuttle Aeroheating -- Aerothermodynamic Entry Environment of the Space Shuttle Orbiter -- Approximate Method of Predicting Heating on the Windward Side of Space Shuttle Orbiter and Comparisons with Flight Data -- Viscous Shock-Layer Predictions for Hypersonic Laminar or Turbulent Flows in Chemical Equilibrium over the Windward Surface of a Shuttle-Like Vehicle -- Influence of Radiant Energy Exchange on the Determination of Convective Heat-Transfer Rates to Orbiter Leeside Surfaces during Entry -- Catalytic Efficiency of the Space Shuttle Heat Shield -- Catalytic Recombination/Space Shuttle Heating -- Viscous Shock-Layer Heating Analysis for the Shuttle Windward Symmetry Plane with Surface Finite Catalytic Recombination Rates -- Chapter II. Space Shuttle Thermal Protection -- Shuttle Orbiter Reusable Surface Insulation Thermal Performance -- Space Shuttle Orbiter Leading Edge Thermal Performance -- Comparison of Orbiter STS-2 Development Flight Instrumentation Data with Thermal Math Model Predictions -- Flight Measurements of Tile Gap Heating on the Space Shuttle -- Tile-Gap Flow in the Shuttle Orbiter Thermal Protection System -- Assessment of Alternate Thermal Protection Systemsfor the Space Shuttle Orbiter -- Initial Shuttle External Tank Aerothermal Flight Evaluation -- Chapter III. Solar Starprobe Heat Shielding -- STARPROBE Thermal Shield System Design Concepts -- Preliminary Design of the Thermal Protection System for Solar Probe -- Chapter IV. Jupiter Galileo Probe Entry Heating and Protection -- Galileo Probe Forebody Flowfield Predictions -- An Evaluation of Turbulence Models for Massively Blown Surfaces -- Trajectories of Solid Particles Spalled from a Carbonaceous Heat Shield.

Spallation of the Galileo Probe Heat Shield -- Response of Galileo Aft Cover Componentsto Laser Radiation -- Author Index for Volume 85.

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