Abstract
Aerothermodynamic design, aerothermodynamic phenomena, and the choice of flight trajectories of either re-entry vehicles, space-transportation systems or hypersonic aircraft depend mutually on each other. We give here a short introduction to issues of flight trajectories in order to provide basic knowledge about these dependencies.
The very fast flight of hypersonic vehicles, partly with vast changes of the flight altitude, makes a precise flight guidance necessary. This is especially a problem with CAV-type space transportation systems because of their very small pay-load fractions. The basic problem is to find a flight trajectory which permits the vehicle to fulfill its mission with minimum demands on the vehicle system. However, different from classical aircraft design, the physical properties and the functions of a hypersonic vehicle and its components must be extremely closely tailored to the flight trajectory and vice versa.
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Hirschel, E.H., Weiland, C. (2009). Short Introduction to Flight Trajectories for Aerothermodynamicists. In: Selected Aerothermodynamic Design Problems of Hypersonic Flight Vehicles. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89974-7_2
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