Convective and radiative heating for vehicle return from the Moon and Mars

Details Convective and radiative heating for vehicle return from the Moon and Mars Convective and radiative heating for vehicle return from the Moon and Mars

Jul 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995stin...9616573g&link_type=abstract

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Aerobraking, Aerodynamic Heating, Convective Heat Transfer, Forebodies, Hypersonic Reentry, Radiative Heat Transfer, Reentry Trajectories, Reentry Vehicles, Return To Earth Space Flight, Space Capsules, Spacecraft Reentry, Aerothermochemistry, Earth-Mars Trajectories, Gas Dissociation, Moon-Earth Trajectories, Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, Shock Layers, Stagnation Flow, Temperature Distribution

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The aerothermal environment is examined for two vehicle forebodies near the peak heating points of lunar and martian return-to-earth trajectories at several nominal entry velocities. The first vehicle forebody is that of a 70 deg aerobrake for entry into earth orbit; the second, a capsule of Apollo configuration for direct entry into the earth's atmosphere. The configurations and trajectories are considered likely candidates for such missions. Two-temperature, thermochemical nonequilibrium models are used in the flow field analyses. In addition to Park's empirical model for dissociation under conditions of thermal nonequilibrium, the Gordiets kinetic model for the homonuclear dissociation of N2 and O2 is also considered. Temperature and emission profiles indicate nonequilibrium effects in a 2 to 5 cm post shock region. Substantial portions of the shock layer flow appear to be in equilibrium. The shock layer over an aerobrake for return from the moon exhibits the largest extent of nonequilibrium effects of all considered missions. Differences between the Gordiets and Parks kinetic model were generally very small for the lunar return aerobrake case, the greatest difference of 6.1 percent occurring in the radiative heating levels.

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