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D-Index
37
Citations
6159
World Ranking
2365
National Ranking
852

Overview

Peter A. Gnoffo is affiliated with Langley Research Center in the United States. Their professional profile does not include details on recent papers, co-authors, or frequent publication venues.

No recorded publications appear under their name, and there is no available information regarding involvement in book publications.

No specific fields or subfields of study are listed, nor are there main topics of work documented with regard to Peter A. Gnoffo's research activities.

There is no record of awards or formal recognitions associated with this scientist.

Due to limited publicly available data, their complete research scope and contributions remain unspecified beyond their institutional affiliation.

Best Publications

  • Conservation equations and physical models for hypersonic air flows in thermal and chemical nonequilibrium

    Peter A. Gnoffo;Roop N. Gupta;Judy L. Shinn

  • An upwind-biased, point-implicit relaxation algorithm for viscous, compressible perfect-gas flows

    Peter A. Gnoffo

  • Planetary-Entry Gas Dynamics

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  • Multi-Component Diffusion With Application to Computational Aerothermodynamics

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  • Upwind-biased, point-implicit relaxation strategies for viscous, hypersonic flows

    Peter A. Gnoffo

  • Computational Aerothermodynamic Design Issues for Hypersonic Vehicles

    Peter A. Gnoffo;K. James Weilmuenster;H. Harris Hamilton;David R. Olynick

  • Influence of sonic-line location on Mars Pathfinder Probe aerothermodynamics

    Peter A. Gnoffo;K. J. Weilmuenster;Robert D. Braun;Christopher I. Cruz

  • Code calibration program in support of the Aeroassist Flight Experiment

    Peter A. Gnoffo

  • Wake Flow About the Mars Pathfinder Entry Vehicle

    R. A. Mitcheltree;P. A. Gnoffo

  • FIRE II calculations for hypersonic nonequilibrium aerothermodynamics code verification: DPLR, LAURA, and US3D

    David Hash;Joseph Olejniczak;Michael Wright;Dinesh Prabhu

  • Multiblock analysis for Shuttle Orbiter reentry heating from Mach 24 to Mach 12

    Peter A. Gnoffo;K. James Weilmuenster;Stephen J. Alter

  • Computational Aerothermodynamic Simulation Issues on Unstructured Grids

    Peter A. Gnoffo;Jeffery A. White

  • Mars Pathfinder six-degree-of-freedom entry analysis

    Robert D. Braun;Richard W. Powell;Walter C. Engelund;Peter A. Gnoffo

  • Prediction and Validation of Mars Pathfinder Hypersonic Aerodynamic Database

    Peter A. Gnoffo;Robert D. Braun;K. James Weilmuenster;Robert A. Mitcheltree

  • A finite-volume, adaptive grid algorithm applied to planetary entry flowfields

    P. A. Gnoffo

  • Enhancements to Program LAURA for computation of three-dimensional hypersonic flow

    Peter A. Gnoffo;Ronald S. Mccandless;H. C. Yee

  • Influence of Ablation on Radiative Heating for Earth Entry

    Christopher O. Johnston;Peter A. Gnoffo;Kenneth Sutton

  • Computation of laminar hypersonic compression-corner flows

    David H. Rudy;James L. Thomas;Ajay Kumar;Peter A. Gnoffo

  • Shock capturing for discontinuous Galerkin methods with application to predicting heat transfer in hypersonic flows

    Eric J. Ching;Yu Lv;Peter A. Gnoffo;Michael Barnhardt

  • CFD Validation Studies for Hypersonic Flow Prediction

    Peter A. Gnoffo

  • Wake flow about a MESUR Mars entry vehicle

    Robert Mitcheltree;Peter Gnoffo

  • Multi-Dimensional, Inviscid Flux Reconstruction for Simulation of Hypersonic Heating on Tetrahedral Grids

    Peter A. Gnoffo

  • Navier-Stokes simulations of Orbiter aerodynamic characteristics including pitch trim and bodyflap

    K. James Weilmuenster;Peter A. Gnoffo;Francis A. Greene

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher L. Rumsey
Christopher L. Rumsey Langley Research Center
Robert D. Braun
Robert D. Braun University of Colorado Boulder
Matthias Ihme
Matthias Ihme Stanford University
Graham V. Candler
Graham V. Candler University of Minnesota

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