The Rarefied Hypersonic Blunt Body Problem

Hypersonic Blunt Body Computations Including Real Gas Effects

Hybrid Particle–Continuum Simulations of Nonequilibrium Hypersonic Blunt-Body Flowfields

Hypersonic blunt-body flowfields containing a mixture of continuum and nonequilibrium flow are investigated using a modular particle–continuum numerical method. The modular particle–continuum method solves the Navier–Stokes equations in near-equilibrium regions and uses the direct simulation Monte Carlo method in nonequilibriumregions.Hypersonicflowof nitrogen over a two-dimensional cylinder at...

Laminar and Turbulent Aero Heating Predictions over Blunt Body in Hypersonic Flow

In the present work, an engineering method is developed to predict laminar and turbulent heating-rate solutions for blunt reentry spacecraft at hypersonic conditions. The calculation of aerodynamic heating around blunt bodies requires alternative solution of inviscid flow field around the hypersonic bodies. In this paper, the procedure is of an inverse nature, that is, a shock wave is assumed a...

Integration between Measurements and Particle Simulations for Hypersonic Rarefied Flows

The hypersonic rarefied wind tunnel has lately been developed at JAXA. The characteristics of hypersonic rarefied flows have been investigated experimentally and numerically in this work. Using a sphere pendulous model, the test flow has been probed by measuring its displacement due to the aerodynamic force. In addition, a spatial variation of total pressure of the test flow has also been measu...

Development of a Pilot Model of Hypersonic Rarefied Wind-Tunnel

A pilot model of the hypersonic rarefied wind-tunnel (HRWT) has been developed and its flow characteristics have been measured. The HRWT consists of a gas heater which produces an increase in working gas temperature, an expansion nozzle with a large expansion ratio, a vacuum chamber as the test section, and an evacuation system with high exhaust velocity to allow a continuous operation at low a...