Basics of Aerothermodynamics

Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Classes of Hypersonic Vehicles and their Aerothermodynamic Peculiaritie -- 1.2 RV-Type and CAV-Type Flight Vehicles as Reference Vehicles -- 1.3 The Objectives of Aerothermodynamics -- 1.4 The Thermal State of the Surface and Radiation-Cooled Outer Surfaces as Focal Points -- 1.5 Scope and Content of the Book -- References -- 2 The Flight Environment -- 2.1 The Earth Atmosphere -- 2.2 Atmospheric Properties and Models -- 2.3 Flow Regimes -- 2.4 Problems -- References -- 3 The Thermal State of the Surface -- 3.1 Definitions -- 3.2 The Radiation-Adiabatic Surface -- 3.3 Case Study: Thermal State of the Surface of a Blunt Delta Wing -- 3.4 Results of Analysis of the Thermal State of the Surface in View of Flight-Vehicle Design -- 3.5 Problems -- References -- 4 Transport of Momentum, Energy and Mass -- 4.1 Transport Phenomena -- 4.2 Transport Properties -- 4.3 Equations of Motion, Initial Conditions, Boundary Conditions, and Similarity Parameters -- 4.4 Remarks on Similarity Parameters -- 4.5 Problems -- References -- 5 Real-Gas Aerothermodynamic Phenomena -- 5.1 Van der Waals Effects -- 5.2 High-Temperature Real-Gas Effects -- 5.3 Dissociation and Recombination -- 5.4 Thermal and Chemical Rate Processes -- 5.5 Rate Effects, Two Examples -- 5.6 Surface Catalytic Recombination -- 5.7 A Few Remarks on Simulation Issues -- 5.8 Computation Models -- 5.9 Problems -- References -- 6 Inviscid Aerothermodynamic Phenomena -- 6.1 Hypersonic Flight Vehicles and Shock Waves -- 6.2 One-Dimensional Shock-Free Flow -- 6.3 Shock Waves -- 6.4 Blunt-Body Flow -- 6.5 Supersonic Turning: Prandtl-Meyer Expansion and Isentropic Compression -- 6.6 Change of Unit Reynolds Number Across Shock Waves -- 6.7 Newton Flow -- 6.8 Mach-Number Independence Principle of Oswatitsch -- 6.9 Problems -- References -- 7 Attached High-Speed Viscous Flow -- 7.1 Attached Viscous Flow -- 7.2 Basic Properties of Attached Viscous Flow -- 7.3 Case Study: Wall Temperature and Skin Friction at the SANGER Forebody -- 7.4 Problems -- References -- 8 Laminar-Turbulent Transition and Turbulence in High-Speed Viscous Flow -- 8.1 Laminar-Turbulent Transition as Hypersonic Flow Phenomenon -- 8.2 Prediction of Stability/Inst ability and Transition in High-Speed Flows -- 8.3 Turbulence Modeling for High-Speed Flows -- References -- 9 Strong Interaction Phenomena -- 9.1 Flow Separation -- 9.2 Shock/Boundary-Layer Interaction Phenomena -- 9.3 Hypersonic Viscous Interaction -- 9.4 Low-Density Effects -- 9.5 Problems -- References -- 10 Simulation Means -- 10.1 Some Notes on Flight Vehicle Design -- 10.2 Computational Simulation -- 10.3 Ground-Facility Simulation -- 10.4 In-Flight Simulation -- References -- 11 The RHPM-Flyer -- References -- 12 Governing Equations for Flow in General Coordinates -- References -- 13 Constants, Functions, Dimensions and Conversions -- 13.1 Constants and and Air Properties -- 13.2 Dimensions and Conversions -- References -- 14 Symbols -- 14.1 Latin Letters -- 14.