Vehicles such as the Shuttle Orbiter operate over a wide range of angle of attack when entering the earth's atmosphere. This angle-of-attack range can be divided into two classes, a moderate regime, and a high regime for angles of attack greater than 30 deg. The HALIS (High Alpha Inviscid Solution) code was developed for computing flowfields in the high angle-of-attack regime. The present investigation is concerned with conducting a comparison of HALIS results with wind-tunnel data and the limited flight data from STS-1. The investigation shows that at high angle-of-attack, the axial flow over the entire windward surface can be subsonic, and, for those conditions, where the subsonic axial flow is confined to the nose of the vehicle, embedded regions of subsonic axial flow may be found along the vehicle strake tips.


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    Title :

    A comparison of computed Space Shuttle Orbiter surface pressures with flight measurements


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Joint Thermophysics, Fluids, Plasma and Heat Transfer Conference ; 1982 ; St. Louis, MO


    Publication date :

    1982-06-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :



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