BOUNDARY LAYER AND A STABILIZED GASEOUS DISCHARGE IN THE PRESENCE OF DIFFUSE RADIATION

WHEN bodies with supersonic velocities enter the dense layers of the atmosphere, the radiation of air heated by the shock wave produces an essential influence on the characteristics of the air flow. In Ref. 1 characteristic parameters of this process have been analyzed and a series of examples examined. In this paper we examine the process of interaction of a viscous radiating gas stream with the surface of the body, possessing characteristics of a boundary layer, and possessing the same phenomenon as that exhibited by stabilized gaseous discharges at large pressures. It is assumed that the mean free path of the radiation is small and that the radiation obeys the laws of diffusion. 1. The equations of gasdynamics, with the inclusion of radiation terms, have the following form: