Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Editorial Committee -- Chapter I. Flowfield Analysis -- Basic Governing Equations for the Flight Regimes of Aeroassisted Orbital Transfer Vehicles -- Complete Flowfields Over Low- and Wide-Angle AOTV Conceptual Configurations -- AOTV Bluff Body Flow-Relaxation Algorithm -- Direct Simulation of Transitional Flow for Hypersonic Re-entry Conditions -- Chapter II. Trajectories -- Performance Evaluation of the Atmospheric Phase of Two Aeromaneuvering Orbital Transfer Vehicles -- Performance Aerodynamics of Aeroassisted Orbital Transfer Vehicles -- Multiple Pass Trajectories for an Aeroassisted Orbital Transfer Vehicle -- Impact of Atmospheric Uncertainties and Viscous Interaction Effects on the Performance of Aeroassisted Orbital Transfer Vehicles -- Analytical Characterization of AOTV Perigee Aerothermodynamic Regime -- Chapter III. Thermal Protection -- Thermal Protection Requirements for Near-Earth Aeroassisted Orbital Transfer Vehicle Missions -- Design and Performance Analysis of a Conical Aerobrake Orbital Transfer Vehicle Concept -- An AOTV Aeroheating and Thermal Protection Study -- Aerothermodynamic Heating Analysis of Aerobraking and Aeromaneuvering Orbital Transfer Vehicles -- Thermal Response of an Aeroassisted Orbital Transfer Vehicle with a Conical Drag Brake -- Low Lift-to-Drag Aerobrake Heat-Transfer Test at Mach 10 -- Calculation of Nonequilibrium Radiation in the Flight Regimes of Aeroassisted Orbital Transfer Vehicles -- Air Radiation Revisited -- Chapter IV. Surface Effects -- Temperature-Dependent Reaction Rate Expressions for Oxygen Recombination -- Surface-Slip Equations for Low Reynolds Number Multicomponent Air Flow -- Comparison of Viscous Shock-Layer Heating Analysis with Shuttle Flight Data in Slip Flow Regime.

Problems of Rate Chemistry in the Flight Regimes of Aeroassisted Orbital Transfer Vehicles -- Progress in Noncatalytic Surfaces for Metallic Heat Shields -- Author Index.