The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently proposed a landing mission to Mars. To improve the feasibility of the mission, rarefied aerodynamics need to be accurately estimated for a precise determination of its flight path and landing site. This work has investigated rarefied hypersonic aerodynamics experimentally and numerically. A rarefied aerodynamic measurement scheme has been developed by using pendulous models in a hypersonic rarefied wind tunnel at JAXA, and the results have been compared with direct simulation Monte Carlo computations. Consequently, numerically predicted aerodynamic coefficients are consistent with the measured values.
Aerodynamic Measurements and Computational Analyses in Hypersonic Rarefied Flows
AIAA Journal ; 53 , 11 ; 3327-3337
2015-04-20
11 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Aerodynamic Measurements and Computational Analyses in Hypersonic Rarefied Flows
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