Status of New Aerothermodynamic Analysis Tool for High-Temperature Resistant Transparencies,

Abstract

This paper summarizes the status of the definition, selection, modification, and development of a Specific Thermal Analyzer Program for Aircraft transparencies (STAPAT). The code developed will merge state-of-the-art technology, code accuracy requirements, and the definition of code function requirements resulting in an aerothermodynamic analytical technique that is specifically applicable and limited to the study of high-temperature resistant transparencies for high-speed aircraft. The aerothermodynamic methodologies required for the definition of the convective heat-load requirements of the STAPAT are described. These include the identification of inviscid methodologies covering the subsonic-to-supersonic-speed flight regime complex three-dimensional configurations consisting of real canopy geometries. The external forced convection methodology is described which includes complex three-dimensional effects resulting from the circumferential and streamwise variation of the local heating loads, the forced convection heat transfer as influenced by wall-temperature effects and transition location, and variable-edge entropy effects.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADP003236

Entities

People

  • C. A. Babish
  • M. O. Varner

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aircrafts
  • Analyzers
  • Convection
  • Coverings
  • Geometry
  • Heat Transfer
  • High Temperature
  • Identification
  • Materials
  • Test Methods
  • Three Dimensional
  • Transitions
  • Transparencies

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics