Abstract
A numerical method to compute a two-dimensional hypersonic flowfield that is weakly ionized and in thermochemical nonequilibrium has been developed. Such a flowfield is described by coupled partial differential equations for the conservation of species mass, mass-averaged momentum, vibrational energy of each diatomic species, electron energy, and total energy. The steady-state solution to these fully coupled equations has been obtained for a gas composed of seven chemical species and characterized by six temperatures using an implicit Gauss-Seidel line relaxation technique. The computed electron number densities in the flowfield of a sphere cone compare well with experimental results.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 266-273 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of thermophysics and heat transfer |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1991 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors would like to acknowledge the support for this work from SDIO/IST, managed by the Army Research Office, under Contract DAA103-86-K-0139, the Department of the Air Force under Contract F33615-86-C-3015, and NASA under a Hypersonic Training and Research Grant NAGW 965. The authors would also like to thank Dr. Chul Park of NASA Ames Research Center for his many helpful suggestions.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 1988 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. All rights reserved.
