Theory of radiation from low velocity shock heated air

D. A. Levin, R. T. Loda, G. V. Candler, C. Park

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Abstract

Application of hypersonic computational fluid dynamics models to low velocity vehicles is examined. Important modeling aspects such as chemical kinetics, electronic excitation/de-excitation mechanisms, and existence of equilibrium vs nonequilibrium conditions in the flow were examined. Flowfield properties and in-band radiances in the wavelength region of 0.25 µ in the vicinity of the stagnation streamline are given for a hemisphere with a radius of 0.0762 m. Comparison with recent shock tube data is also shown.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)269-276
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of thermophysics and heat transfer
Volume7
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1993

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Funding Information:
This research is supported by SDIO/IST managed by the Army Research Office under Contract MDA903-89-C-0003. We acknowledge the Computational Chemistry Branch of NASA Ames Research Center for providing supercomputer time.

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