Aerothermodynamic analysis of flow modification techniques in non equilibrium supersonic hypersonic flows

Abstract

Higher wave drag is a common problem for an object flying in the supersonic or hypersonic flow regime Hence the present investigations use computational fluid dynamics as a tool to study the dynamics of flow field to mitigate the adverse effects in such a complex environment For this a finite volume based two dimensional axisymmetric compressible reacting flow solver is developed which is comprised of five species and eleven chemical elementary reactions Initial investigations on blunt obje...