Radiation-gas dynamic shock layer coupling

Abstract

The present work considers theoretically the problem of radiation losses on the shock layer during hypersonic flight, and in particular, results are presented for the stagnation line shock layer for a wide variety of flight conditions, providing a new overview of radiation-gas dynamic coupling within a shock layer. The present results are based on a previous model (Engel, Farmer, et al., 1973) of a viscous radiating shock layer. An important result is that the radiation-gas dynamic coupling effect on the radiative heating can be related to a single parameter, namely, the radiative cooling parameter, whereas the effect on the shock layer thickness is not a simple function of this parameter.