Evaluation of radiative heat transfer for interplanetary re-entry under vibrational nonequilibrium conditions

Authors:  C.M. Mazzoni, D. Lentini, G. DʼAmmando, R. Votta

Abstract:
A radiative heat transfer code, based on the Discrete Transfer method, is used in combination with a spectral radiative database and a thermochemical nonequilibrium Navier–Stokes flowfield solver, to compute radiative heating under vibrational nonequilibrium conditions for the re-entry test vehicle FIRE II. The trajectory point under scrutiny refers to a flight velocity of 8.3 km/s, where radiative equilibrium prevails. Numerical predictions indicate a quite good agreement with experimental data, both for the radiative intensity along the stagnation streamline and for the total (convective plus absorbed radiative) heat flux at the stagnation point. The Discrete Transfer method makes the code applicable to arbitrarily complex geometries, and the vibrational nonequilibrium description allows considering reentry from lunar or interplanetary return trajectories, as well as from terrestrial orbits.

Keywords:
Re-entry
Vibrational nonequilibrium
Radiative heat transfer

Published in: Aerospace Science and Technology  (Volumes 28, Issue 1, July 2013)

Publisher: Elsevier

ISSN Information: 1270-9638

Evaluation of radiative heat transfer for interplanetary re-entry under vibrational nonequilibrium conditions

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