Abstract—Hypersonic flows around spatial vehicles during their reentry phase in planetary atmospheres are characterized by intense aerothermodynamics phenomena. The aim of this work is to analyze high temperature flows around an axisymmetric blunt body taking into account chemical and vibrational non-equilibrium for air mixture species and the no slip condition at the wall. For this purpose, th...

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) control of hypersonic laminar separation flows is investigated in this paper. A series numerical simulations over various geometry configurations, namely, a compression corner and double wedge ramp inlet, have been conducted by application an external electromagnetic field. Results show that the performance MHD flow mainly determined acceleration Lorentz force directed...

A preliminary hybrid particle-continuum computational framework for simulating hypersonic interacting flows is proposed. The framework consists of the direct simulation Monte Carlo-Information Preservation (DSMC-IP) method coupled with a NavierStokes solver. Since the DSMC-IP method provides the macroscopic information in each time step, determination of the continuum fluxes across the interfac...

We present a unified approach for both continuum and near-continuum flows based on the Boltzmann equation and kinetic theory. We use the gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) developed from the linearized Boltzmann equation for the continuum flows and a modified GKS with a variable relaxation time for the near-continuum flows. The gas-kinetic schemes are validated with simulations of the hypersonic flow pas...

Many astrophysical flows occur in inhomogeneous media. We briefly discuss some general properties of the adiabatic and radiative inhomogeneous systems and discuss the relevance of those properties to the planetary nebulae systems. We then focus on radiative hypersonic bullets and the applicability of this model to planetary and protoplanetary systems such as CRL 618, NGC 6543, Hen 3-1475.

This paper presents a study of the breakdown of the Navier-Stokes equations in hypersonic viscous flows over a sharp cone tip and a hollow cylinder/flare geometry. Investigations are performed through detailed comparisons of the numerical results obtained with continuum and particle techniques. The objective of the study is to predict conditions under which the continuum approach may be expecte...

This paper presents the results of a numerical study that examines the surface heating discrepancies observed between computed and measured values along a sharp cone. With Mach numbers of an order of 10 and the free-stream length Reynolds number of an order of 10 000, the present computations have been made with the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method by using the G2 code of Bird. The o...