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TVT, 2010 Volume 48, Issue 6, Pages 956–964 (Mi tvt886)

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Heat and Mass Transfer and Physical Gasdynamics

Radiative gas dynamics of large landing spacecraft

S. T. Surzhikov

A. Ishlinsky Institite for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: Problems of the radiative gas dynamics of new-generation landing spacecraft are discussed. Numerical and theoretical study of the aerodynamics of large-scale spacecraft of the Orion type entering the Earth's atmosphere along the landing trajectory from the International Space Station is performed in the two-dimensional axially symmetric formulation. Distribution of convective and radiation heat flows along the spacecraft surface is obtained. It is shown that for the typical trajectory of a large spacecraft entering dense layers of the Earth's atmosphere, the density of radiation heat flows is comparable to or exceeds the density of convective heat flows.

UDC: 533.6.011

Received: 11.05.2010


 English version:
High Temperature, 2010, 48:6, 910–917

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