Hypersonic airbreathing vehicles are characterized by highly-integrated airframe and propulsion system. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools have been used extensively in the design and analysis phrase of hypersonic vehicles. In this paper, an engineering method and a finite volume method based on the center of grid are developed for preliminary research of interested integrative hypersonic...

Nosecone radomes of hypersonic flight vehicles show degradation of electromagnetic (EM) performance characteristics due to variations in the dielectric parameters (dielectric constant and electric loss tangent) of the radome wall resulting from heating due to extreme aerodynamic drag. It is indicated that the EM performance predictions based on conventional monolithic half-wave wall based on av...

An efficient and robust implicit operator for the point Gauss–Seidel method is presented for solving the compressible Euler equations. The new implicit operator was derived by adding a scalar form of artificial dissipation to the upwind implicit side. The amount of artificial dissipation was locally adjusted using a weighting factor based on the solution gradient. For validation, the performanc...

Artificial viscosity can be combined with a higher-order discontinuous Galerkin finite element discretization to resolve a shock layer within a single cell. However, when a non-smooth artificial viscosity model is employed with an otherwise higherorder approximation, element-to-element variations induce oscillations in state gradients and pollute the downstream flow. To alleviate these difficul...

Computations are performed to study the boundary layer instability mechanisms pertaining to hypersonic flow over blunt capsules. For capsules with ablative heat shields, transition may be influenced both by out-gassing associated with surface pyrolysis and the resulting modification of surface geometry including the formation of micro-roughness. To isolate the effects of out-gassing, this paper...

Abstract. The Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo (DSMC) technique is used for numerical analysis of rarefied-gas hypersonic flows near a blunt plate, wedge, two side-by-side plates, disk, torus, and rotating cylinder. The role of various similarity parameters (Knudsen and Mach numbers, geometrical and temperature factors, specific heat ratios, and others) in aerodynamics of the probes is studied. Im...

A validation study is presented for a numerical code which calculates a two-dimensional steady-state solution for inviscid hypersonic flows in the presence of strong surface blowing. A higher-orde: Godunov-type finite-volume approach is used to discretize the inviscid Euler equations. Interface values of the state quantities are reconstructed nsing a monotone interpolation technique suggested b...

We present work on 3D hypersonic laminar flows of air around blunt bodies with applied magnetic fields of various strengths. The air is heated by a shock that can change its thermodynamic properties. We treat the air both as a calorically perfect gas (chemically frozen) and as a real gas in thermodynamic equilibrium. Due to the high temperature the thermodynamic properties of the air are affect...

-The scramjet performance of air-breathing hypersonic vehicle is highly correlated with flight height, Mach and angle of attack (AOA). The violent disturbance of the AOA can cause the engine power off. Consequently, the maneuverability of hypersonic vehicle is strictly limited in the cruising period. A composite control system for an air-breathing hypersonic vehicle is presented. The hypersonic...

This paper develops the analytical framework to compare the approximate performance of periodic hypersonic cruise trajectories with previously proposed hypersonic trajectory prooles for global reach. Speciically, range, V and payload carrying capacity are evaluated for various trajectory types to illustrate the enhanced performance achieved by y-ing periodic hypersonic cruise trajectories with ...