The European Space Agency recently flew an entry, descent, and landing demonstrator module called Schiaparelli that entered the atmosphere of Mars on the 19th of October, 2016. The instrumentation suite included heatshield and backshell pressure transducers and thermocouples (known as AMELIA - Atmospheric Mars Entry and Landing Investigations and Analysis) and backshell radiation and direct heat flux-sensing sensors (known as COMARS (Combined Aerothermal and Radiometer Sensors Instrument Package) and ICOTOM (narrow band radiometers)). Due to the failed landing of Schiaparelli, only a subset of the flight data was transmitted before and after plasma black-out. The goal of this paper is to present comparisons of the flight data with calculations from NASA simulation tools, DPLR (Data Parallel Line Relaxation) / NEQAIR (NonEQuilibrium AIr Radiation) and LAURA (Langley Aerothermodynamic Upwind Relaxation Algorithm) / HARA (High-temperature Aerothermodynamic RAdiation ). DPLR and LAURA are used to calculate the flowfield around the vehicle and surface properties, such as pressure and convective heating. The flowfield data are passed to NEQAIR and HARA to calculate the radiative heat flux. Comparisons will be made to the COMARS total heat flux, radiative heat flux and pressure measurements. Results will also be shown against the reconstructed heat flux which was calculated from an inverse analysis of the AMELIA thermocouple data performed by Astrium. Preliminary calculations are presented in this abstract.
Simulation Schiaparelli's Entry and Comparison to Aerothermal Flight Data
AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum (Aviation 2019)
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2019
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Dallas, TX, United States
2019 AIAA Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference
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2019
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Dallas, TX, United States
2019-06-17
Conference paper
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English
AIAA-2019-3260: Simulation of the Schiaparelli Entry and Comparison to Aerothermal Flight Data
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