Reentry Heating & Corridor
Estimate stagnation-point convective heating during entry with the Sutton-Graves correlation.
Heating rate
207.80 W/cm2
2.078 MW/m2
Entry speed
7.50 km/s
Rn 0.50 m
Stagnation-point heating
Sutton-Graves heating rises with atmospheric density and the cube of entry velocity.
2.08 MW/m2
Heat flux
2.078 MW/m2
207.80 W/cm2 at the stagnation point
Atmosphere
0.000400 kg/m3
local density at the sampled entry condition
Nose radius
0.500 m
larger radius lowers the Sutton-Graves heating term
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