Research Article

Computationally Efficient Assessments of the Effects of Radiative Transfer, Turbulence Radiation Interactions, and Finite Rate Chemistry in the Mach 20 Reentry F Flight Vehicle

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(a) Geometry of the reentry F vehicle. A 5° half-angle cone (represented as “A”) with a spherical nose tip of radius 0.00254 m (represented as “B”) and a total length of 4.0 m; (b) the mesh associated with the vehicle geometry employed in this study; (c) the entire computational domain along with the lines where the results were monitored.
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