Predicting Temperature Rises, Due to Aerodynamic Heating: An Analogue Method Utilizing Trajectory Data to Calculate Temperature Distribution Throughout a Missile Radome

In this paper it is described how trajectory data is used to calculate the distribution of temperature throughout the radome of a missile. The problem divides itself into two parts, one being the solution of the heat conduction equation within the medium of the radome, the second being the solution of the boundary condition at the surface. The method is easily applied to many other problems where a medium is heated by forced convection and in fact three independent problems have been solved using the method described here.