Experimental and predicted pressure and heating distributions for an Aeroassist Flight Experiment vehicle in air at Mach 10The Aeroassisted Flight Experiment vehicle for whose scale model pressure and heat-transfer rate distributions have been measured in air at Mach 10 is a 60-deg elliptic cone, raked off at a 73-percent angle, with an ellipsoid nose and a skirt added to the base of the rake plane to reduce heating. The predictions of both an inviscid flow-field code and a Navier-Stokes solver are compared with measured values. Good agreement is obtained in the case of pressure distributions; the effect of Reynolds number on heat-transfer distributions is noted to be small.
Document ID
19890055874
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Micol, John R. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)