Advances for Radiation Modeling for Earth Re-entry in PARADE: Application to the STARDUST Atmospheric Entry

In this article we illustrate the application of the rather recent expansion of the Plasma Radiation Database PARADE toward high excited electronic states of molecular Nitrogen, to an earth reentry flight simulation. The numerically rebuild radiative and convective heat flux of the STARDUST (SRC) vehicle will be investigated for two points in the reentry trajectory near peak heating. Emphasis will be on the comparison of the old and new radiation dataset and on the effect of coupling the results of the radiation calculation to the flow solver.