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    CFD Simulations in Support of Shuttle Orbiter Contingency Abort Aerodynamic Database Enhancement

    CFD Simulations in Support of Shuttle Orbiter Contingency Abort Aerodynamic Database Enhancement


    Modern Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques were used to compute aerodynamic forces and moments of the Space Shuttle Orbiter in specific portions of contingency abort trajectory space. The trajectory space covers a Mach number range of 3.5-15, an angle-of-attack range of 20deg-60deg, an altitude range of 100-190 kft, and several different settings of the control surfaces (elevons, body flap, and speed brake). Presented here are details of the methodology and comparisons of computed aerodynamic coefficients against the values in the current Orbiter Operational Aerodynamic Data Book (OADB). While approximately 40 cases have been computed, only a sampling of the results is provided here. The computed results, in general, are in good agreement with the OADB data (i.e., within the uncertainty bands) for almost all the cases. However, in a limited number of high angle-of-attack cases (at Mach 15), there are significant differences between the computed results, especially the vehicle pitching moment, and the OADB data. A preliminary analysis of the data from the CFD simulations at Mach 15 shows that these differences can be attributed to real-gas/Mach number effects. The aerodynamic coefficients and detailed surface pressure distributions of the present simulations are being used by the Shuttle Program in the evaluation of the capabilities of the Orbiter in contingency abort scenarios.

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    CFD Simulations in Support of Shuttle Orbiter Contingency Abort Aerodynamic Database Enhancement

    Beteiligte:
    Papadopoulos, Periklis E. (Autor:in) / Prabhu, Dinesh (Autor:in) / Wright, Michael (Autor:in) / Davies, Carol (Autor:in) / McDaniel, Ryan (Autor:in) / Venkatapathy, E. (Autor:in) / Wercinski, Paul (Autor:in) / Gomez, R. J. (Autor:in)
    Kongress:

    35th AIAA Thermophysics Conference ; 2001 ; Anaheim, CA, United States

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2001-05-24

    Medientyp :

    Preprint

    Format :

    Keine Angabe

    Sprache :

    Englisch

    Schlagwörter :

    Fluid Mechanics And Thermodynamics

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