The accurate prediction of aerothermal surface loading is paramount importance for the design high speed flight vehicles. In this work, we consider numerical solution hypersonic flow over a double-finned geometry, representative inlet an air-breathing vehicle, characterized by three-dimensional intersecting shock-wave/turbulent boundary-layer interaction at Mach 8.3. High Reynolds numbers ($Re_...

Hypersonic high-enthalpy wind tunnels have been a challenge to ground tests in aerospace research area for decades and its test flow uniformity is one of the most important parameters evaluating tunnel performances. Regarding performance requirement, theories methods designing hypersonic nozzles at high enthalpy conditions are quite difficult, but very interesting topics, especially when air mo...

Non-modal linear stability analysis results are presented for hypersonic flow over an elliptic cone with aspect ratio of two at zero angle attack, completing earlier modal instability around the same geometry. The theoretical framework to perform transient growth compressible flows on a generalized two-dimensional frame reference is developed first time and then applied solve initial-value prob...