Influence of the Control Temperature of Park's Two-temperature Model on the Mars Pathfinder Reactive Hypersonic Flow

Gibson De Marchi Poltronieri, Farney C. Moreira, João Luiz F. Azevedo

Numerical simulations of reactive hypersonic flow under thermodynamic and chemical non-equilibrium conditions are presented for the Mars Pathfinder capsule. An 8-species chemical m…