Three-Dimensional Radiation Ray-Tracing for Hypersonic Entry Vehicles

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  • TBMG-27993
Published December 01, 2017 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
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Shock layer radiation is a form of aerodynamic heating that becomes significant at some entry velocities, depending on the vehicle trajectory and the planet’s atmosphere. Radiation heating is commonly computed with an appropriate method known as the tangent slab approximate in which the radiative heat flux is simplified to be a one-dimensional equation and, thus, the effects of radiation intensities from other directions are neglected.