Computational analysis of the aerothermodynamic effects in a reentry vehicle with surface discontinuity like a combined GAP/STEP

This work is a computational study of a hypersonic rarefied non-reacting flow past a combined gap/step configuration at zero-degree angle of attack in thermal nonequilibrium conditions. Effects on the flowfield structure and on the aerodynamic surface quantities due to changes in the gap L/H ratio a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paulo Henrique Mineiro Leite
Other Authors: Wilson Fernando Nogueira dos Santos
Language:English
Published: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) 2015
Online Access:http://urlib.net/sid.inpe.br/mtc-m21b/2015/06.09.17.32