Skip to Main Content
Manned Spacecraft Design Principles
book

Manned Spacecraft Design Principles

by Pasquale M. Sforza
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
647 pages
21h 38m
English
Butterworth-Heinemann
Content preview from Manned Spacecraft Design Principles
Appendix A

Hypersonic Aerodynamics

Abstract

The technical foundation for hypersonic flight back and forth across the atmosphere as used and discussed in the main text is presented here including normal and oblique shocks, small disturbance theory, Prandtl–Meyer flow, Newtonian theory, and conical flow, among others.

Keywords

Normal shock waves, oblique shock waves, Newtonian flow, conical flow, small disturbance theory

A.1 One-Dimensional Flow Relations

Let us consider the high-speed flow of a gas under the simplest condition of steady (/t=0image) one-dimensional (V=u(x)iˆ) flow. In this flow, we assume the gas is frictionless (μ=0), nonconducting ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Safety Design for Space Systems

Safety Design for Space Systems

Gary Eugene Musgrave, Axel Larsen, Tommaso Sgobba
Safety Design for Space Operations

Safety Design for Space Operations

Firooz Allahdadi, Isabelle Rongier, Paul Wilde, Tommaso Sgobba
Space Safety Regulations and Standards

Space Safety Regulations and Standards

Joseph N. Pelton, Ram Jakhu

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780124199767