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Electromagnetic Wave Propagation In The Plasma Layer of A Reentry Vehicle

Computational Physics 2014-07-17 v1 Plasma Physics

Abstract

The ability to simulate a reentry vehicle plasma layer and the radio wave interaction with that layer, is crucial to the design of aerospace vehicles when the analysis of radio communication blackout is required. Results of aerothermal heating, plasma generation and electromagnetic wave propagation over a reentry vehicle are presented in this paper. Simulation of a magnetic window radio communication blackout mitigation method is successfully demonstrated.

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@article{arxiv.1407.4431,
  title  = {Electromagnetic Wave Propagation In The Plasma Layer of A Reentry Vehicle},
  author = {Madhusudhan Kundrapu and John Loverich and Kris Beckwith and Peter Stoltz and Alexey Shashurin and Michael Keidar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.4431},
  year   = {2014}
}

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4 pages, Proceedings of ICOPS/BEAMS 2014