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Objectives

In this project, we will be analyzing a spacecraft entering Earth's atmosphere using

FLUENT.Our analysis will cover the following parts:

  Studying the velocity distribution over the spacecraft

  Studying the air distribution over the spacecraft

  Studying the effect of Mach number on the spacecraft

  Varying the nose tip of the spacecraft and analyzing the effect.

  Comparison of theoretical results with the result obtained using FLUENT.

Research Papers

1.An Aerodynamic Optimization of Supersonic flow over the nose conesection of missiles

This is a research paper written by two research scholars and one design specialist from

UPES,India.

Purpose of the Paper: 

Their purpose was to prove that a new curvature model was more thermally resistant than a

previous spherical model.

They designed 2D supersonic nose cone models of missiles in GAMBIT and analyzed these

models for Mach number 3 in FLUENT.

Relevant to our project:

As we are going to analyze the velocity at different mach speeds by varying the tip of the

spacecraft, this research paper gives a general idea about the aerodynamic effects on the

different curvatures.

Reference Link: 

http://www.ijert.org/view-pdf/2966/an-aerodynamic-optimization-of-supersonic-flow-over-

the-nose-section-of-missiles 

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2.Aerodynamics Analysis of a Manned Space Vehicle for Mission to Mars

This research paper is written by Giuseppe Pezzella and Antonio Viviani, Aerothermodynamics

Division, Centre of Aerospace Research,Italy.

Purpose of the paper: 

This paper dealt with the aerodynamic analysis of a spacecraft entering Mars

atmosphere.Different Mach numbers at different angle of attacks were analyzed.

Relevant to our paper: 

One part of our project deals with the effect of Mach number on the spacecraft and air

distribution.So,this research paper gave a general idea on the topic.

Reference Link: 

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jther/2011/857061/ 

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jther/2011/857061/http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jther/2011/857061/