| Abstract: | A numerical method is described for solving the equations of the compressible viscous shock layer on smooth spherically blunted axisymmetric cones at zero angle of attack and flow of a perfect gas. Effective use is made of the scheme of separating the original system of equations into parabolic (second order) and inviscid (first order) subsystems, which are solved by intrinsic methods. The results of the computations are presented. The method is capable of natural generalization to the case of nonequilibrium physical and chemical processes and diffusion. In most published papers dealing with computation of the compressible shock layer, the authors examine either the vicinity of the stagnation point or a certain region of spherical blunting [1–5]. In all the papers except [4, 5], a number of simplified assumptions have been made regarding the flow picture. Very few papers [6–8] have calculated the viscous shock layer on the forward surface of blunted bodies. In [6, 7] an approximate examination was made only of hyperboloids and paraboloids of revolution, which have very favorable geometry. Reference [8] used a approximate Karman—Polhausen integral method for a very simple system of equations. The method proposed here is essentially an accurate numerical method for solution of the viscous shock layer equations. |
