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Atmospheric reentry: Flow regime and optical radiation

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The possibility of determining the moment of laminar-turbulent transition under real conditions of hypersonic flight in the earth's atmosphere on the basis of an analysis of the body radiation as a function of flight altitude is discussed. The simple method of detecting the moment of laminar-turbulent transition using the difference between turbulent and laminar heat flow is justified.

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    V. A. Kirillovykh & V. M. Nikolaev

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Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, pp. 202–204, September–October, 1993.

The authors are grateful to A. N. Krasnokutskaya for carrying out the computer calculations and to Yu. A. Epishkin, V. M. Shmanenkov, and G. E. Starchenko for the discussion of the transition problem which prompted them to write this paper.

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Kirillovykh, V.A., Nikolaev, V.M. Atmospheric reentry: Flow regime and optical radiation. Fluid Dyn 28, 748–749 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01050065

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