This survey paper gives an overview of NASA's hypersonic fluid and thermal physics program (recently renamed aerothermodynamics). The purpose is to present the elements of, example results from, and rationale and projection for this program. The program is based on improving the fundamental understanding of aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic flow phenomena over hypersonic vehicles in the continuum, transitional, and rarefied flow regimes. Vehicle design capabilities, computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, turbulence modeling, aerothermal loads, orbiter flight data analysis, orbiter experiments, laser photodiagnostics, and facilities are discussed.


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    Title :

    NASA's hypersonic fluid and thermal physics program (Aerothermodynamics)


    Contributors:
    Graves, R. A. (author) / Hunt, J. L. (author)

    Publication date :

    1985-06-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :




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