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Reentry studies performed on lifting-body configuration have focused mainly on crew return vehicles (CRVs) [4], while the research on wing-body configuration is focused on orbital space planes and maneuverable reentry vehicles [10–13]. Li et al. [14,15] carried out trajectory optimization of a boost-glide hypersonic missile waverider configuration using the shooting technique, and calculated the footprint of an HBG missile from 5000 km to 15,000 km down-range and 5000 km cross-range once boosted from a Minuteman III boost vehicle to a speed of approximately 6.5 km/s at a burn-out angle of nearly zero degree. Rizvi et al. [16] computed the optimal trajectories of waverider type hypersonic boost-glide vehicle for medium range applications, and showed that purchase Myriocin the integrated heat load can be reduced by as much as 50 percent with penalty of only 10 percent in the overall down range. The research carried out by Rizvi et al. [16] shows the dependency of the integrated heat load on the burn-out conditions. The optimal burn-out conditions and subsequent optimal reentry trajectories under constraint heat rate with the objective to maximize the down-range and cross-range performance for medium to intermediate range applications are not available in literature. For a ballistic vehicle with a particular burn-out speed and a fixed reentry vehicle shape and wing loading, the critical parameter is the burn-out angle. Low burn-out angles imply a small free-flight range but a higher reentry range and vice versa. Longer flight time at a shallow reentry angle also results in the increase in the total heat load [17]. The heat rate problem is more severe for small size vehicle because of small nose/leading-edge-radius (for wing-body and lifting-body designs). Limiting the heat rate restricts the reentry angle and lowers the down-range/cross-range performance of a reentry vehicle. Sharper re-entry angle results in high decent rates and the vehicle quickly approaches the heat rate boundary, resulting in infeasible trajectories. The importance of the burn-out angle therefore necessitates it to be optimized. The approach used to optimize the burn-out conditions is to model the boost phase. The multiphase optimization problem is solved using a hp-adaptive pseudospectral method. For the free-flight and the glide phase, the path limits include the heat rate limit of 4 MW/m2 which can either be at the nose or at a fin-tip, as well as dynamic pressure constraint of 320,000 Pa corresponding to the terminal constraint. The heat rate limit corresponds to the temperature limit of 2900 K which the reinforced carbon–carbon material can sustain [9]. Ablative materials are not suitable for lifting vehicle because of significant reduction in aerodynamic properties with modification in the body shape [18]. The planform loading of lifting-body, wing-body as well as waverider configurations is assumed to be 400 kg/m2 which is consistent with that of fighter aircrafts as well as MaRRV data considered in Ref. [19]. The non-linear optimal control problem is solved using hp-adaptive pseudospectral method implemented in Gauss pseudospectral optimization software (GPOPS) [20].
Definition of phases The various phases include:
Physical model
Pseudospectral method In h method, the low order polynomials are used to approximate the state vector. The mesh is refined till the required accuracy of the solution is obtained. In p method, a single interval is used and the accuracy is improved by increasing the order p of the polynomial. In a hp adaptive method, the required accuracy is achieved by increasing the number of nodes as well as the degree of polynomial. Additional nodes are introduced, where the curvature is sharp, and therefore the method is called the hp-adaptive pseudospectral method [13]. The hp-adaptive pseudospectral method is implemented in Gauss pseudospectral optimization software(GPOPS®) [20].