The purpose of this study is to establish the technical ground for modeling the physics of laser powered pulse detonation phenomenon. Laser powered propulsion systems involve complex fluid dynamics, thermodynamics and radiative transfer processes. Successful predictions of the performance of laser powered launch vehicle concepts depend on the sophisticate models that reflects the underlying flow physics including the laser ray tracing the focusing, inverse Bremsstrahlung (IB) effects, finite-rate air chemistry, thermal non-equilibrium, plasma radiation and detonation wave propagation, etc. The proposed work will extend the base-line numerical model to an efficient design analysis tool. The proposed model is suitable for 3-D analysis using parallel computing methods.


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    Title :

    Laser Powered Launch Vehicle Performance Analyses


    Contributors:
    Chen, Yen-Sen (author) / Liu, Jiwen (author) / Wang, Ten-See (author)

    Publication date :

    2001-05-31


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English