Abstract:
The problem of using a magnetic field to reduce heat fluxes on the surface of a flying vehicle is discussed as a continuation of the previous investigations [1–3]. A classical electromagnetic thermal protection scheme that uses a magnetic dipole oriented opposite to the oncoming flow is considered for a space capsule of Stardust (NASA space probe) mission entering the Earth’s atmosphere. It is shown that, for fairly high magnetic fields, the distribution of heat flux on the capsule surface weakly depends on the field amplitude, while the shock-wave stand-off distance from the surface increases in proportional to the field amplitude.
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