High Speed Reacting and Radiating Flows.
Abstract
Two distinct aspects of energy transfer motivated the research. One was concerned with radiative heat transfer and its coupling with high speed shock layers. Optimum geometric shapes were predicted so as to accomplish a minimization of the overall thermal radiation received by a surface. The highly nonisotropic radiation fields associated with such flows then led to the development of an extended differential approximation model of general applicability. A second area was concerned with some detailed experimental examination of mass transfer related to surface oxidation. Molecular and dissociated oxygen beams were impinged upon graphite targets in studies of the reaction products and probabilities, spatial desorption distributions, and surface relaxation history. The efforts may be of interest to entry flow field analysis, general radiation field evaluations, refractory oxidation, and some aspects of boundary layer, wake, and plume chemical kinetics.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA006460
Entities
People
- J. R. Baron
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology