In the last decade, the Electric Arc Shock Tube (EAST) facility has been widely used to provide experimental data aiming to validate radiative heating models used for atmospheric entry, mostly at velocities above 9km/s in air. In more recent years, another experimental campaign aimed to look at velocity below 9 km/s and its analysis resulted in a significant improvement of the air kinetic model using new rates found in the literature but discrepancies were still observed, especially for the N2 second positive system. Despite these previous studies, the overall uncertainties related to surface heating for lunar return remain around 50% To reduce these uncertainties, the last experimental campaign at EAST, named test 62, was conducted in pure nitrogen at velocity ranging from 6 to 11 km/s at a freestream pressure of 0.2 Torr to provide more fundamental data on nitrogen. A previous study analyzed the data obtained at a velocity of 10.3 km/s, where atomic radiation is dominant, and provided spatially resolved density measurements of different states of nitrogen. This study will focus on experimental data obtained at shock velocity of 6.88 and 7.15 km/s where molecular nitrogen is expected to be the dominant source of radiation.
Analysis of Nitrogen Shockwave Radiation at Velocity Around 7km/s
AIAA Aviation Forum ; 2022 ; Chicago, IL, US
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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