Nonequilibrium vibrational kinetics in the boundary layer of re-entering bodies
- 1 July 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer
- Vol. 10 (3), 397-405
- https://doi.org/10.2514/3.803
Abstract
Nonequilibrium vibrational distributions of N-2 in the boundary layer surrounding a blunt body in hypersonic flow have been calculated by coupling the nonequilibrium vibrational kinetics, the dissociation and recombination processes, and the boundary-layer equations, The role of different energy exchange processes [vibration-vibration (V-V), vibration-translation (V-T), and recombination-dissociation] in affecting vibrational kinetics has been studied by considering each process, Then the complete kinetics are taken into account, obtaining a global view of the interplay of the different microscopic processes, The model used for the recombination/dissociation processes is such to selectively pump levels nu = 25 and 45 of the N-2 vibrational manifold, This vibrational energy is then redistributed by V-V and V-T processes, As a result, strongly nonequilibrium vibrational distributions are obtained, despite the thermalizing action of the V-T processes by nitrogen atoms.Keywords
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