High-Speed Army Reference Vehicle

Abstract

The U.S. Army recently formulated a strategy regarding how the future Army will fight and the associated modernization and research priorities for achieving these military capabilities. Long-Range Precision Fires underpinned by hypersonic flight are critical to ensuring that the United States can enforce its will against any competitor. Many barriers must be overcome to realize an effective future US Army. Some of these gaps are in understanding hypersonic vehicle aerothermodynamics, thus motivating the need for foundational research. The goal of this report is to define a canonical, Army-relevant configuration suitable for foundational research to allow for focused collaboration with a critical mass of appropriate subject matter experts. Data and knowledge gained from studies on this open geometrical configuration may be subject to more restrictive distribution.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2022
Accession Number
AD1176136

Entities

People

  • Brian Grantham
  • Edward B. White
  • Frank Fresconi
  • James DeSpirito
  • Joseph D. Vasile
  • Marco Duca
  • Rodney D W Bowersox
  • Thomas Recchia

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aerodynamic Characteristics
  • Aerospaceplanes
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Flight
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Governments
  • Hypersonic Flight
  • Hypersonic Vehicles
  • Leading Edges
  • Mach Number
  • Military Capabilities
  • Military Research
  • Physics
  • Power Series
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Pressure Gradients
  • Projectiles
  • United States
  • Vehicles
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics