Peter A. Gnoffo

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Discipline name Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking

Engineering and Technology D-index 31 Citations 4,576 121 World Ranking 7393 National Ranking 2272

Overview

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date

Composite material is intertwined with Heat shield and Conical surface in his research. His research on Conical surface frequently connects to adjacent areas such as Composite material. As part of his studies on Aerospace engineering, he often connects relevant subjects like Space suit. He undertakes interdisciplinary study in the fields of Space suit and Space Shuttle through his research. He performs multidisciplinary study in Space Shuttle and Spacecraft design in his work. His study brings together the fields of Inviscid flow and Mechanics. Peter A. Gnoffo integrates Inviscid flow with Laminar flow in his research. His study deals with a combination of Laminar flow and Aerodynamics. He integrates several fields in his works, including Aerodynamics and Aerodynamic heating.

Peter A. Gnoffo most often published in these fields:

Aerospace engineering (85.71%)
Mechanics (71.43%)
Hypersonic speed (42.86%)

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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.
NASA TP-2867 (1989)

865 Citations

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

Peter A. Gnoffo.
NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N (1990)

351 Citations

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

Peter A. Gnoffo.
AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference (1989)

192 Citations

Computational Aerothermodynamic Design Issues for Hypersonic Vehicles

Peter A. Gnoffo;K. James Weilmuenster;H. Harris Hamilton;David R. Olynick.
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets (1999)

180 Citations

Code calibration program in support of the Aeroassist Flight Experiment

Peter A. Gnoffo.
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets (1990)

121 Citations

Influence of sonic-line location on Mars Pathfinder Probe aerothermodynamics

Peter A. Gnoffo;K. J. Weilmuenster;Robert D. Braun;Christopher I. Cruz.
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets (1996)

121 Citations

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

Peter A. Gnoffo;K. James Weilmuenster;Stephen J. Alter.
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets (1994)

112 Citations

Wake Flow About the Mars Pathfinder Entry Vehicle

R. A. Mitcheltree;P. A. Gnoffo.
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets (1995)

107 Citations

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

David Hash;Joseph Olejniczak;Michael Wright;Dinesh Prabhu.
45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (2007)

101 Citations

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

Peter A. Gnoffo;Ronald S. Mccandless;H. C. Yee.
25th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting (1987)

95 Citations

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