The direct-simulation Monte Carlo method incorporating a dissociating and ionizing gas model for air with thermal radiation is used to characterize the hypersonic flow about an axisymmetric representation of an aeroassist flight experiment (AFE) vehicle, whose freestream conditions correspond to selected points along the entry, aerobraking, and exit phases of the trajectory. Calculations for two trajectory conditions indicate that the radiative heating of the AFE forebody is lower than the convective heating, but becomes significant as the maximum convective heating rate condition is approached.


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    Title :

    Nonequilibrium thermal radiation for an aeroassist flight experiment vehicle


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    Publication date :

    1988-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    No indication


    Language :

    English


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    Nonequilibrium thermal radiation for an aeroassist flight experimentvehicle

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