FIRE II calculations for hypersonic nonequilibrium aerothermodynamics code verification: DPLR, LAURA, and US3D

David Hash, Joseph Olejniczak, Michael Wright, Dinesh Prabhu, Maria Pulsonetti, Brian Hollis, Peter Gnoffo, Michael Barnhardt, Ioannis Nompelis, Graham Candler

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Abstract

Two hypersonic computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes, the NASA Ames code DPLR (Data-Parallel Line Relaxation) and the NASA Langley code LAURA (Langley Aerothermodynamic Upwind Relaxation Algorithm), are being used to generate the aerothermodynamics database for the NASA Constellation Program Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) named Orion, the new spacecraft for human space exploration. Both codes are used to simulate the aerothermal environments that Orion will experience for the purpose of designing its thermal protection system (TPS). The CEV Aerosciences Project (CAP) has supported the present comparison study between the two codes for the Apollo era flight test, FIRE (Flight Investigation of Reentry Environment) II, to investigate and quantify the differences in convective and radiative forebody heating predictions. In addition, the parallel unstructured implicit Navier-Stokes solver US3D of the University of Minnesota participates in the present study. Results indicate at most a 7% difference in the predicted forebody convective heating levels. The radiative heating predictions however indicate substantial disagreement for the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) range.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCollection of Technical Papers - 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting
Pages7322-7339
Number of pages18
StatePublished - Jul 4 2007
Event45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting 2007 - Reno, NV, United States
Duration: Jan 8 2007Jan 11 2007

Publication series

NameCollection of Technical Papers - 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting
Volume11

Other

Other45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting 2007
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityReno, NV
Period1/8/071/11/07

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