Preliminary analysis of STS-3 entry heat-transfer data for orbiter windward centerline
Abstract
A preliminary analysis of heat transfer data on the space shuttle orbiter windward centerline for the STS-3 mission entry is presented. Temperature-time history plots for each measurement location and tabulated wall temperature and convective heating rate data at 21 selected trajectory points are included. The STS-3 flight data are also compared with predictions by two approximation methods for computing convective heat transfer rates in equilibrium air.
- Publication:
-
NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- June 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982STIN...8228575T
- Keywords:
-
- Aerodynamic Heat Transfer;
- Reentry Effects;
- Space Shuttle Orbiters;
- Space Transportation System 3 Flight;
- Approximation;
- Convective Heat Transfer;
- Data Correlation;
- Data Reduction;
- Predictions;
- Tables (Data);
- Temperature Profiles;
- Time;
- Wall Temperature;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer