LOVEL: a low-velocity aerodynamic heating code for flat-plates, wedges, and cones

Technical Report · Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1981

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6611421· OSTI ID:6611421

Thornton, A. L.

The LOVEL computer program calculates the boundary-layer edge conditions for subsonic and supersonic flow over flat-plate, wedge, and cone geometries for freestream Mach conditions (M/sub infinity/ < 3. Cold-wall heat-transfer calculations use reference temperature correlations based on boundary-layer edge Mach number to compute fluid properties. The first part of this report describes the theory used in the computation of the cold-wall heat-transfer rates; the second part describes in detail the input/output format for the LOVEL computer program. Outputs include freestream conditions, boundary-layer edge conditions, cold-wall heat-transfer rates, plots of heating rates, and punched-card output for use in ablation and in-depth transient heat-conduction computer codes.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 6611421
• Report Number(s): SAND-81-1390; ON: DE82007100
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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