A review of some approximate methods used in aerodynamic heating analyses

It is pointed out that preliminary design and optimization studies for new aerospace vehicles require techniques which can calculate aerodynamic heating rates accurately and efficiently. The method employed to calculate the flow field depends to a large extent on the shape of the vehicle, Mach number, Reynolds number, and Knudsen number. In the case of the aero-assisted orbital transfer vehicle (AOTV), a substantial portion of the flight will be in the transitional regime between continuum and free molecule flow. The present paper discusses some approximate methods which have been used to calculate heating rates on high-speed vehicles. Attention is given to the stagnation point and leading edges, the downstream region, the axisymmetric analog, laminar and turbulent heating rates, transition heating rates, gas models, and three-dimensional applications.

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