Numerical Techniques for High Incidence Reentry Aerodynamics.

Abstract

The investigation of reentry flowfields at very high incidence showed that the Lockheed Navier-Stokes computer code is capable of producing accurate flowfield solutions at angles of attack up to about 60 degrees. Current work is centered around: (a) using this code as a tool to investigate the properties of high incidence flows, and (b) extending the present code to allow it to compute flows at incidence beyond 60 degrees, in order to cover the full range of incidence encountered by the reentry vehicles of the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) System.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 23, 1983
Accession Number
ADA134178

Entities

People

  • R. Conti
  • R. Whitehead

Organizations

  • Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamics
  • Atmosphere Entry
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Base Flow
  • Bow Shock
  • Computations
  • Experimental Data
  • Fleet Ballistic Missiles
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Mach Number
  • Reentry Vehicles
  • Reynolds Number
  • Simulations
  • Three Dimensional
  • Viscous Flow
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Software Engineering