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Basics of Aerothermodynamics

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. E. H. Hirschel

    1. Zorneding, Germany

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  • The basics of aerothermodynamics are treated in an advanced level

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-13

  3. The Flight Environment

    Pages 15-26

  4. The Thermal State of the Surface

    Pages 29-68

  5. Transport for Momentum, Energy and Mass

    Pages 69-100

  6. Real-Gas Aerothermodynamic Phenomena

    Pages 101-133

  7. Inviscid Aerothermodynamic Phenomena

    Pages 135-198

  8. Attached High-Speed Viscous Flow

    Pages 199-261

  9. Laminar-Turbulent Transition and Turbulence in High-Speed Viscous Flow

    Pages 263-310

  10. Strong Interaction Phenomena

    Pages 311-355

  11. Simulation Means

    Pages 357-379

  12. The RHPM-Flyer

    Pages 381-384

  13. Governing Equations for Flow in General Coordinates

    Pages 385-388

  14. Constants, Functions, Dimensions and Conversions

    Pages 389-393

  15. Symbols

    Pages 393-399

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 401-413
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The last two decades have brought two important developments for aeroth- modynamics. One is that airbreathing hypersonic flight became the topic of technology programmes and extended system studies. The other is the emergence and maturing of the discrete numerical methods of aerodyn- ics/aerothermodynamics complementary to the ground-simulation facilities, with the parallel enormous growth of computer power. Airbreathing hypersonic flight vehicles are, in contrast to aeroassisted re-entry vehicles, drag sensitive. They have, further, highly integrated lift and propulsion systems. This means that viscous eflFects, like boundary-layer development, laminar-turbulent transition, to a certain degree also strong interaction phenomena, are much more important for such vehicles than for re-entry vehicles. This holds also for the thermal state of the surface and thermal surface effects, concerning viscous and thermo-chemical phenomena (more important for re-entry vehicles) at and near the wall. The discrete numerical methods of aerodynamics/aerothermodynamics permit now - what was twenty years ago not imaginable - the simulation of high speed flows past real flight vehicle configurations with thermo-chemical and viscous effects, the description of the latter being still handicapped by in­ sufficient flow-physics models. The benefits of numerical simulation for flight vehicle design are enormous: much improved aerodynamic shape definition and optimization, provision of accurate and reliable aerodynamic data, and highly accurate determination of thermal and mechanical loads. Truly mul- disciplinary design and optimization methods regarding the layout of thermal protection systems, all kinds of aero-servoelasticity problems of the airframe, et cetera, begin now to emerge.

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"The book has the merit to cover in a reasonable volume a wide range of topics which are the basics of aerothermodynamics. … For teaching and self-study purposes, problems are given at the end of many chapters. … the author has much experience in teaching. The result is a valuable book that is recommended to people technically interested in the field of high-speed flows, including graduate or doctoral students and engineers." (Jean Cousteix, SIAM Reviews, Vol. 47 (4), 2005)

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  • Zorneding, Germany

    E. H. Hirschel

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