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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The performance of a Mach 6 viscous optimized waverider was calculated using the 3-D Navier-Stokes equations. The Mach 6 viscous optimized waverider was generated using MAXWARP, a code developed at the University of Maryland. The computations were performed using CFL3D, an implicit upwind-biased finite-volume algorithm developed at NASA Langley. Results show that good agreement was found between the calculated performance by MAXWARP and results from the Mach 6 Navier-Stokes computation. Furthermore, off-design performance of the Mach 6 optimized waverider was computed at Mach 4 and 8. The performance at these Mach numbers compared well with the performance of the viscous optimized waveriders specifically designed for these Mach numbers. Finally, contours of different flow parameters in the cross-flow plane were examined for the three calculations. The results indicate that the flow gradients are relatively small within the captured flow, and the variation itself is well behaved; thus, making the waverider configuration a promising choice for an engine/airframe design, especially for cruise-type applications.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: NASA-CR-189658 , NAS 1.26:189658 , UM-AERO-92-08
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    Publication Date: 2019-07-27
    Description: An investigation of the aerothermodynamic environment of the Huygens entry probe has been conducted. A Monte Carlo simulation of the trajectory of the probe during entry into Titan's atmosphere was performed to identify a worst-case heating rate trajectory. Flowfield and radiation transport computations were performed at points along this trajectory to obtain convective and radiative heat-transfer distributions on the probe's heat shield. This investigation identified important physical and numerical factors, including atmospheric CH4 concentration, transition to turbulence, numerical diffusion modeling, and radiation modeling, which strongly influenced the aerothermodynamic environment.
    Keywords: Aerodynamics
    Type: AIAA Paper 2005-4816 , 38th AIAA Thermophysics Conference; 6=9 Jun. 2005; Toronto, Ontario; Canada
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2019-07-13
    Description: Direct Simulation Monte Carlo and free-molecular analyses were used to provide aerothermodynamic characteristics of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The results of these analyses were used to develop an aerodynamic database that was used extensively for the pre-flight planning and in-flight execution for the aerobraking phase of the Mars Odyssey mission. During aerobraking operations, the database was used to reconstruct atmospheric density profiles during each pass. The reconstructed data was used to update the atmospheric model, which was used to determine the strategy for subsequent aerobraking maneuvers. The aerodynamic database was also used together with data obtained from on-board accelerometers to reconstruct the spacecraft attitudes throughout each aerobraking pass. The reconstructed spacecraft attitudes are in good agreement with those determined by independent on-board inertial measurements for all aerobraking passes. The differences in the pitch attitudes are significantly less than the preflight uncertainties of +/-2.9%. The differences in the yaw attitudes are influenced by zonal winds. When latitudinal gradients of density are small, the differences in the yaw attitudes are significantly less than the preflight uncertainties.
    Keywords: Spacecraft Design, Testing and Performance
    Type: AIAA Paper 2002-4809 , AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference and Exhibit; Aug 05, 2002 - Aug 08, 2002; Monterey, CA; United States
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    Publication Date: 2019-07-13
    Description: Convective and radiative heating environments have been computed for a three-dimensional ellipsled configuration which would perform an aerocapture maneuver at Neptune. This work was performed as part of a one-year Neptune aerocapture spacecraft systems study that also included analyses of trajectories, atmospheric modeling, aerodynamics, structural design, and other disciplines. Complementary heating analyses were conducted by separate teams using independent sets of aerothermodynamic modeling tools (i.e. Navier-Stokes and radiation transport codes). Environments were generated for a large 5.50 m length ellipsled and a small 2.88 m length ellipsled. Radiative heating was found to contribute up to 80% of the total heating rate at the ellipsled nose depending on the trajectory point. Good agreement between convective heating predictions from the two Navier-Stokes solvers was obtained. However, the radiation analysis revealed several uncertainties in the computational models employed in both sets of codes, as well as large differences between the predicted radiative heating rates.
    Keywords: Astrodynamics
    Type: AIAA Paper 2004-5177 , AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference and Exhibit; Aug 16, 2004 - Aug 19, 2004; Providence, RI; United States
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2019-07-13
    Description: Engine-airframe integrated hypersonic waveriders have been optimized previously for both cruising flight and accelerators using inverse design flowfields to provide desirable aerodynamic performance and inlet properties. With engine installation, cruisers retain the high L/D advantages of the basic waverider form. To provide an understanding of waverider optimizer trends, an analytical development is presented which includes the presentation of a simplified model of a generic waverider shape. The model is shown to have good agreement with computational results, and it is used to demonstrate engineering tradeoffs in L/D, volume, and volume efficiency. Based on the demonstrated performance trends, and considering the desirability of uniform inlet flow, an improved waverider shape for engine-airframe integration is proposed using a hybrid cone-wedge generating flowfield.
    Keywords: AERODYNAMICS
    Type: AIAA PAPER 93-0507 , AIAA, Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit; Jan 11, 1993 - Jan 14, 1993; Reno, NV; United States|; 11 p.
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    Publication Date: 2019-07-12
    Description: Starting in January 2004, the NESC has received several communications from knowledgeable technical experts at NASA expressing shared concerns (mainly at the Langley Research Center (LaRC) and Ames Research Center (ARC)) about Huygens mission success. It was suggested that NASA become more technically involved directly in the analysis of Huygens' entry, descent and landing (EDL) focusing on the parachute deployment trigger performance and the resultant effects on the operation of the parachute system, and the determination of the radiative heating environment at Titan by ESA and the corresponding thermal protection system (TPS) response. A NESC Team was formed and tasked to provide an independent assessment of these concerns. The results of that assessment are documented in this report.
    Keywords: Space Transportation and Safety
    Type: NASA/TM-2009-215732 , NESC-RP-05-67/04-069-I , L-19670 , LF99-8787
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  • 7
    Publication Date: 2019-07-11
    Description: Previous high level analysis has indicated that significant mass savings may be possible for planetary science missions if aerocapture is employed to place a spacecraft in orbit. In 2001 the In-Space Propulsion program identified aerocapture as one of the top three propulsion technologies for planetary exploration but that higher fidelity analysis was required to verify the favorable results and to determine if any supporting technology gaps exist that would enable or enhance aerocapture missions. A series of three studies has been conducted to assess, from an overall system point of view, the merit of using aerocapture at Titan, Neptune and Venus. These were chosen as representative of a moon with an atmosphere, an outer giant gas planet and an inner planet. The Venus mission, based on desirable science from plans for Solar System Exploration and Principal Investigator proposals, to place a spacecraft in a 300km polar orbit was examined and the details of the study are presented in this paper.
    Keywords: Spacecraft Design, Testing and Performance
    Type: NASA/TM-2006-214291 , L-19237
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