A review of high-speed, convective, heat-transfer computation methodsFormulations useful for engineering formulations are sought, with a view to a clearer physical understanding, of the phenomena that govern convective aerodynamic heating at the elevated speeds encountered in atmospheric missile trajectories. After discussing cold-wall laminar boundary layer heating, the complex boundary layer transition phenomenon and cold-wall turbulent boundary layer heating are treated. The current understanding of separated flow-region and shock-interaction heating is presented, together with an evaluation of heat-protection methods and a characterization of the influence of mass addition on laminar and turbulent boundary layers. Finite-difference method-based CFD code results are evaluated.
Document ID
19900034530
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Tauber, Michael E. (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)