Continuum and kinetic simulation of laminar separated flow at hypersonic speeds

The continuum and kinetic approaches were used to study the shock wave/boun dary-layer interaction for monoatomic and diatomic gases. The effect of the translational/rotational exchange and gas/surface interaction models for t he kinetic approach on the flow structure was analyzed. The influence of sl ip conditions for the Navier-Stokes solver on the shock wave position and s eparation region length was studied. A comparison with available experiment al data was performed.