RESULTS OF DETAILED FLOW FIELD AND RATE CHEMISTRY CALCULATIONS ON AN AEROBALLISTIC PELLET

Abstract

The method of characteristics as applied to a real gas (assuming frozen composition along streamlines) was used to compute the detailed supersonic flow field about the pellet geometry. The free stream velocity was 22,100 feet per second while the free stream pressure and temperature were 1 mm Hg and 300 K respectively. The calculation of the flow field properties in the subsonic region was performed. The air was assumed to be in thermal and chemical equibrium. The results of this calculation served as input to the frozen characteristics program which handles the computation of the entire supersonic flow field region up to the near wake shock.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0601318

Entities

People

  • Arthur Fields

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Base Pressure
  • Bow Shock
  • Chemistry
  • Dissociation
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Free Stream
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Intellectual Property
  • Method Of Characteristics
  • Payload
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Supersonic Flow

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flight
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow