24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-3.7.R.2

ESTIMATION OF SKIN SURFACE TEMPERATURE OF SPACE VEHICLES DURING WHOLE FLIGHT ENVELOPE

S. R. Chaudhry, N. U. Saqib, F. Umar
Advanced Computing and Engineering Solutions (ACES), Pakistan

Keywords: surface, temperature, transient, supersonic, insulation

This paper describes a method for calculation of transient surface temperatures, on space vehicles, at supersonic and hypersonic speeds using CFD. This method can rapidly calculate the temperature and the heating rate time histories for complete flight trajectories.

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