Radiative heat transfer at the leading edge of a body during intense evaporation

The problem of the flow of a radiating gas near the leading part of a body during intense vaporization of its surface is solved. Significant radiative heating occurs when a sufficiently dense gas flows past the body, thus a gasdynamic model of the flow is used according to which the flow takes place in a shock layer and a vapor layer separated by the contact surface. The radiant energy flux from the shock layer is partially absorbed by a vapor layer and falls on the surface of the body, causing intense vaporization.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, pp. 190–192, March–April, 1975.