Aerothermodynamics and Reentry

Kurzfassung

Aerothermodynamics is one of the disciplines in aeronau-tics and aerospace research which, especially during the last 50 years, has been strongly advanced. Before the flight of the Soviet Sputnik 1 in 1957, representing the first artificial satellite in an Earth orbit, no textbook related to aerothermodynamics and reentry was available. Since then, however, numerous books were published and every year several conferences focus on this topic. The discus-sion of aerothermodynamics and reentry presented here is condensed to an overview of the driving physical and chemical phenomena and provides basic relations and correlations. References allowing a more detailed study of this complex topic are given at the end of this section.