Pioneer Venus Large Probe Stagnation Point Entry Heating with Coupled Ablation

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This paper calculated the stagnation point entry heating of the Pioneer Venus large probe with and without ablation. The resulting heating environments were used as inputs to a material response solver to calculate the internal temperature of the heatshield. These internal temperatures were then compared to flight measurements taken by the probe in 1978. The current results compare well with the flight data.

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