OWITI Bernard O.   SAKAI Takeharu   YAMADA Kazuhiko   SUZUKI Toshiyuki   FUJITA Kazuhisa   
TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES, AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN 18(4) 133-139 2020年
<p>The prediction accuracy of arcjet flow using a computer code named ARCFLO3+ is examined by comparing the arc heater operational characteristic data, pitot pressure and cold-wall heat flux data obtained from a segmented constrictor-type arc-heat...
AEROSPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 92 858-868 2019年9月
An inflatable aerodynamic decelerator with a membrane aeroshell is a promising key technology in the reentry, descent, and landing phases of future space transportation. The membrane aeroshell is generally deformed by the in-flight aerodynamic for...
JOURNAL OF SPACECRAFT AND ROCKETS 56(2) 577-585 2019年3月
The drag coefficient for inflatable reentry vehicles shows discrepancies between a wind tunnel experiment and a flight test in a transonic regime. These discrepancies exist in the drag decrease behavior in the transonic regime and local minimum va...