Apollo Heat-Shield Half Body Laminar Computational Fluid Dynamics Database

A series of Computational Fluid Dynamics solutions have been computed on the Apollo heat-shield geometry for the evaluation of different interpolation approaches within the database of solutions. In addition, given the rise of Artificial Intelligence, this dataset could also be used to develop or evaluate the application of Artificial Intelligence methods for the estimation of aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic environments during atmospheric entry. Each of the 185 heat-shield only (no backshell) half body solutions have been computed using standard best practice with NASA’s Data Parallel Line Relaxation solver and post processed to calculate quantities of interest at both the surface and boundary layer edge.