THE STUDY OF REENTRY TURBULENT WAKES AND ITS EFFECTS ON RADAR CROSS SECTION

For analysis of radar cross section (RCS) of hypersonic underdense turbulent ware of reentry vehicles, a theoretical method for calculating the plasma fluctuation intensity is developed based on analysis of the characterization of the hypersonic wake flow. In the method k-ε-g turbulent model is adopted to complete Reynolds equation, in which the chemical component fluctuation intensity is taken into account. The governing equations are solved by fully implicit finite-difference schemes. For calculating RCS,...