Stability and Transition Analysis for Reentry Tool, STAR

Abstract

The effort is primarily to accelerate delivery of an improved stability and transition analysis tool. The initial goal is to aid contractors supported under the DARPA FALCON program in the development and test of Common Aero Vehicle (CAV) maneuvering reentry configurations. Under this effort, state-of-the-art computational tools developed for hypersonic boundary layer stability research will be integrated into a user-friendly package (the Stability and Transition Analysis for Reentry tool, STAR). STAR will be based on Parabolized Stability Equation (PSE) solvers, with additional modules to account for crossflow, transient growth, and roughness effects. Previous flight and ground test data will be analyzed for validation and calibration of the new tool, and stability and transition on actual contractor-provided CAV configurations will be analyzed computationally in concert with ground tests of the same configurations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA470787

Entities

People

  • Helen L. Reed

Organizations

  • Texas A&M University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerospace Craft
  • Aircrafts
  • Boundary Layer
  • Boundary Layer Control
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Geometry
  • Hypersonic Reentry Vehicles
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Swept Wings
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Boundary Layers
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow