**Meet the editor**

Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm professor of Engineering and the director of Aerospace Research and Education Center at the Washington University in St. Louis, USA. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield distinguished professor and an executive director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at the Wichita State University in Kansas. From

1978 to 1994, he worked in various scientific and managerial positions at the McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis. He became the program director and McDonnell Douglas fellow in 1990. He received his PhD degree in Aeronautical Sciences from the Stanford University in 1975, MS degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969, and BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 1968. He has worked in computational fluid dynamics, computational electromagnetics and acoustics, rarefied gas dynamics and hypersonic flows, flow control, and more recently sustainable air and ground transportation.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Equation 3** Rho Shin Myong

Yuriy D. Shevelev

**Section 2 Miscellaneous Topics 109**

Ren

**Phase-A Design Level 91**

Giuseppe Pezzella and Antonio Viviani

**Problems for Hypersonic Vehicles 111** Fang Chen, Shengtao Zhang and Hong Liu

**Section 1 Aerodynamic Modeling and Numerical Simulations 1**

Chapter 1 **Numerical Simulation of Hypersonic Rarefied Flows Using the Second-Order Constitutive Model of the Boltzmann**

Chapter 2 **Numerical Study of Hypersonic Boundary Layer Receptivity Characteristics Due to Freestream Pulse Waves 21**

Chapter 3 **Numerical Modeling of Hypersonic Aerodynamics and Heat**

Chapter 4 **Launcher Aerodynamics: A Suitable Investigation Approach at**

Chapter 5 **Modeling and Analysis of Fluid-Thermal-Structure Coupling**

Chapter 6 **Hypersonic Vehicles Profile-Following Based on LQR Design Using Time-Varying Weighting Matrices 133**

Jian Chen, Zihao Xiong, Zixuan Liang, Chen Bai, Ke Yi and Zhang

**Transfer Problems of the Martian Descent Modules 41**

Xiaojun Tang, Juan Yu, Tianli Hui, Fenglong Yang and Wentao Yu
