STUDY TO OBTAIN DESIGN DATA FOR REENTRY ECM ANTENNA SYSTEMS, VOLUME 1

Abstract

The report presents survey material on the effects of the reentry environment on the voltage breakdown characteristics of antennas. Enough is presently known about these effects to indicate their relative importance and to allow meaningful experiments to be designed to diagnose them. Effects of convection are not well understood because of conflicts among various theories and experimental data. High gas temperature effects are not adequately explained and insufficient data presently exist to allow extrapolation with confidence. Results of some illustrative calculations of flow fields about a typical slightly bluntnosed body are presented, including an assessment of the vibrational nonequilibrium effect, which is found to be important.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0828878

Entities

People

  • Arthur K. Jordan
  • Daniel L. Mcmenamin
  • Paul E. Bisbing

Organizations

  • General Electric

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antenna Radiation Patterns
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Convection
  • Difference Equations
  • Differential Equations
  • Diffusion Coefficient
  • Electric Current
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Experimental Data
  • Geometry
  • High Temperature
  • Magnetic Dipoles
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Radiation Patterns
  • Spiral Antennas

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Plasma Physics.
  • Regression Analysis.