Reentry Vehicle Nosetip Design for Minimum Total Heat Transfer

Abstract

A direct optimization method has been used to determine fixed fineness ratio nosetip shape contours for a specified vehicle ballistic coefficient; and nosetip scale, which minimize the total trajectory nosetip laminar or turbulent heat transfer. These constraints neglect the interaction of the nosetip shape with vehicle performance characteristics. When this interaction is taken into account and additional new constraints of constant mass and volume are applied, truncated cone nosetips are shown to result in the lowest total nosetip heat transfer. No attempt was made to optimize nosetip shape for the latter constraints.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 15, 1982
Accession Number
ADA114013

Entities

People

  • R. F. Kramer
  • R. L. Baker

Organizations

  • The Aerospace Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Bodies
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Equations
  • Fineness Ratio
  • Flow Fields
  • Geometry
  • Heat Transfer
  • Materials Science
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Reentry Vehicles
  • Trajectories
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Fluid Dynamics.