Hypersonic Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer of Re-Entry Space Vehicles and Planetary Probes

Presents the results of theoretical and experimental studies of the problems of super/hypersonic flows around the models of real space vehicle configurations such as "Buran"-orbiter, winged cone (airplane-like body), Clipper space vehicle, and the Martian planetary probe. Theoretical analysis is based on solution 2/3D Navier- Stokes equations and their simplified asymptotic models.