Turbulent Diffusion of a Reacting Wake

Abstract

Properties of the nonequilibrium hypersonic turbulent wake have been calculated from an integral solution for the coupled diffusion of mass and energy. Emphasis is placed on: a comparison of a slender body calculation from the present simple method with results obtained for the same case by more advanced mathematical techniques such as finite difference methods; new blunt body results in which the reacting inviscid flow is entrained by the turbulent inner wake; the effect of contaminants on both slender and blunt body wakes; and a comparison of the present calculations with ballistic range measurements for wake velocity and electron density.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 03, 1964
Accession Number
AD0611100

Entities

People

  • Leslie A. Hromas
  • Wilmot H. Webb

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Blunt Bodies
  • Boundary Layer
  • California
  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Equations
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Inviscid Flow
  • Space Systems
  • Turbulent Flow

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Boundary Layers
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flight
  • Microelectronics