Computational solutions were obtained for chemically reacting flowfields over the entire windward surface of the Space Shuttle at high angle of attack. The recently developed computational method for the Space Shuttle is capable of treating three dimensional viscous nonequilibrium air flow as well as equilibrium air and perfect gas flows. A general nonorthogonal computational grid system is used to treat the nonaxisymmetric geometry. Boundary conditions take into account noncatalytic wall, equilibrium with noncatalytic wall condition are compared to the fully catalytic wall solutions, the equilibrium air solutions, the perfect gas solutions, and also the Shuttle flight heating and pressure data. The comparisons show good agreement and correlations in most cases.


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    Title :

    Viscous shock-layer predictions of three-dimensional nonequilibrium flows past the space shuttle at high angle of attack


    Contributors:
    Kim, M. D. (author) / Swaminathan, S. (author) / Lewis, C. H. (author)


    Publication date :

    1983-10-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English