Summary: JOURNAL OF THERMOPHYSICS AND HEAT TRANSFER
Vol. 16, No. 1, January­March 2002
Modeling of Flow and Radiation in the Atlas Plume
A. A. Alexeenko,¤
N. E. Gimelshein,
and D. A. Levin
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
R. J. Collins,§
R. Rao,¶
and G. V. Candler¤¤
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
S. F. Gimelshein
George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052
J. S. Hong
and T. Schilling§§
Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, Virginia 22311
Modeling results and data are presented for a chemically reacting ow from a thrusting Atlas II rocket at low
altitudes. High spatial resolution imagery and spectra have been obtained for a kerosene/liquid oxygen multinozzle
plume at altitudes in the continuum ow regime. A numerical solution for a three-dimensional plume ow from
the Atlas rocket engine is obtained using two different Navier­Stokes computational uid dynamics codes. The

Source: Alexeenko, Alina - School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University

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