Accession Number:

AD0809980

Title:

ADVANCED RE-ENTRY SYSTEMS HEAT-TRANSFER MANUAL FOR HYPERSONIC FLIGHT

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Oct 1964-Aug 1965

Corporate Author:

BOEING CO SEATTLE WA

Personal Author(s):

• Thomas, Alfred C.
• Perlbachs, Andrew
• Nagel, A. L.

Report Date:

1966-10-01

Pagination or Media Count:

235.0

Abstract:

An advanced re-entry systems heat transfer handbook for hypersonic flight has been developed using aerothermodynamic prediction methods developed during the X-20A Dyna Soar Program. It contains 1 design procedures for computing aerodynamic heating rates to re-entry vehicle configurational elements, 2 discussion on differences between aerodynamic heat transfer and pressure distribution observed in present day wind tunnels and those which would occur in actual free flight, 3 wind tunnel to flight extrapolation factors, 4 simplified expressions for estimating stagnation point and swept cylinder turbulent stagnation line heating rates, and 5 graphs for rapid calculation of heating rates and extrapolation to flight factors. The information presented is applicable to complex maneuverable vehicles as well as ballistic bodies.

Descriptors:

• *REENTRY VEHICLES
• *HYPERSONIC FLIGHT
• *HEAT TRANSFER
• LAMINAR BOUNDARY LAYER
• MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION
• HANDBOOKS
• LIFTING REENTRY VEHICLES
• AERODYNAMIC HEATING
• TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER
• SHOCK WAVES
• MANEUVERABILITY
• COMPRESSIBLE FLOW

Subject Categories:

• Fluid Mechanics
• Unmanned Spacecraft
• Spacecraft Trajectories and Reentry

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE