The ionized flow field over re-entry bodies
By: by H.G. Lew.
Contributors: General Electric Company. Space Sciences Laboratory.; Space and Missile Systems Organization (U.S.)
Series: Technical information series / General Electric Company. Space Sciences Laboratory -- R67SD70; Technical information series (General Electric Company. Space Sciences Laboratory) -- R67SD70.
Publisher: Space Sciences Laboratory, General Electric Co.
Published: 1967
Place of publication: [King of Prussia, Pa.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Space vehicles -- Atmospheric entry.; Ionospheric drift.
Notes: "Presented at the Conference on the Application of Plasma Studies to Re-Entry Vehicle Communications, October 3-4, 1967."

At head of title: Space Sciences Laboratory.

"December 1967."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 30).

Supported by Air Force Space and Missile System Organization Contract no. FO4 694-67-C-0052.
Table of contents: value: I. Introduction; value: II. Theoretical analysis: A. Laminar boundary layer; value: B. Inviscid nonequilibrium flow; value: C. Stagnation region of blunted bodies; value: III. Results and discussion: A. Stagnation region; value: B. Nose bluntness effect of electron density distribution; value: C. Stagnation martian atmosphere; value: D. Mass transfer of ablation material (Hydrocarbon, graphite, alkali metal, teflon); value: IV. Concluding remarks.