AN APPROXIMATE ANALYSIS OF SIMULTANEOUS GAS-PHASE AND SURFACE ATOM RECOMBINATION FOR STAGNATION BOUNDARY LAYER

Abstract
The concept of equivalent surface reaction is developed for gas-phase recombination at the stagnation region of blunt bodies. This concept is based on the fact that the chemical state of a nonequilibrium highly cooled boundary layer largely determined by the recombination that occurs near the wall. An equation based on this concept is shown to predict the heat transfer to a noncatalytic surface to within a few percent of the more accurate existing results. The equation is generalized to apply to the case in which surface catalytic recombination occurs simultaneously with gas-phase reaction.

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