@Article{Santos:2005:LeBlEf,
               author = "Santos, Wilson Fernando Nogueira",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Leading-edge bluntness effects on aerodynamic heating and drag of 
                         power law body in low-density hypersonic flow",
              journal = "Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and 
                         Engineering",
                 year = "2005",
               volume = "27",
               number = "3",
                pages = "236--241",
             keywords = "aerodynamic heating, DSMC, hypersonic flow, rarefied flow, blunt 
                         body.",
             abstract = "ABSTRACT: A numerical study is reported on power law shaped 
                         leading edges situated in a rarefied hypersonic flow. The 
                         sensitivity of the heat flux and drag coefficient to shape 
                         variations of such leading edges is calculated by using a Direct 
                         Simulation Monte Carlo method. Calculations show that the 
                         stagnation point heating on power law leading edges with finite 
                         radius of curvature follows the same relation for classical blunt 
                         body in continuum flow; it scales inversely with the square root 
                         of the curvature radius at the nose. Furthemore, for those leading 
                         edges with zero or infinity radii of curvature, the heat transfer 
                         behavior is in surprising agreement with that for classical blunt 
                         body far from the nose of the leading edge.",
           copyholder = "SID/SCD",
                 issn = "0100-7386",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "leading.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "16 jun. 2024"
}