ABSTRACT
On the basis of Cheng's model, E. A. Gershbein derived three-dimensional thin viscous shock layer (TVSL) equations for the inviscid, multicomponent, chemically reacting flow over a blunt body. A TVSL analysis based on the classical kinetic equation is given by M. M. Kuznetsov and V. S. Nikol'skii. They include the internal degrees of freedom in their treatment and predict the range of validity of the model as applied to hypersonic polyatomic gas flows. The effects of freestream nonuniformity on the TVSL structure in the vicinity of a double curvature stagnation point have been studied extensively by S. V. Peigin and S. V. Timchenko. Two special cases were explored: the hypersonic far-wake type flow and the flow produced by a hypersonic spherical source. The TVSL problem has also been considered for a multicomponent reacting gas flowing over a surface at which heterogeneous chemical reactions take place.
