NASA's Aeroassist Flight Experiment (AFE) vehicle will be deployed from the Space Shuttle Orbiter in 1994 to make a data-gethering aeropass through the upper atmosphere before returning to orbit for Shuttle pickup. An axisymmetric, chemically-reacting viscous shock-layer code is presently used to calculate AFE heating rates which automatically accounts for the viscous-inviscid interaction and entropy layer-swallowing effects which are ignored by the conventional boundary-layer methods. Results are presented for the stagnation-point heating of the current AFE baseline trajectory.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Flight stagnation-point heating calculations on Aeroassist Flight Experiment vehicle


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1991-02-01



    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


    Flight stagnation-point heating calculations on Aeroassist Flight Experiment vehicle

    HAMILTON, H. H. / GUPTA, ROOP N. / JONES, JIM J. | AIAA | 1991



    Aeroassist Flight Experiment (AFE)

    P. M. Siemers | NTIS | 1988


    The Aeroassist Flight Experiment

    Walberg, G. D. / Siemers, P. M., III / Calloway, R. L. et al. | NTRS | 1987


    Aeroassist Flight Experiment (AFE)

    Siemers, Paul M., III | NTRS | 1988