Abstract
A numerical method to compute a two-dimensional hypersonic flowfield that is weakly ionized and in thermochemical nonequilibrium has been developed. Such a flowfield is described by coupled partial differential equations for the conservation of species mass, mass-averaged momentum, vibrational energy of each diatomic species, electron energy, and total energy. The steady-state solution to these fully coupled equations has been obtained for a gas composed of seven chemical species and characterized by six temperatures using an implicit Gauss-Seidel line relaxation technique. The computed electron number densities in the flowfield of a sphere cone compare well with experimental results.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 266-273 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of thermophysics and heat transfer |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1991 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:Copyright © 1988 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. All rights reserved.
