RTO WG 10: Test Cases for CFD Validation of Hypersonic Flight

Abstract

The NATO Research Technology Organization (RTO) Advanced Vehicle Technology (AVT) panel established Working Group 10 (WG 10) "Technologies for Propelled Hypersonic Flight" in 1998. The Terms of Reference included three Subgroups: (1) aerospike plug nozzle, (2) RAM/SCRAM jet configurations, and (3) Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) validation. An overview of Subgroup 3 (SG 3) is presented in this paper. The SG 3 participants defined six topical areas for which validation of CFD methodologies was deemed essential for effective analysis and design of propelled hypersonic vehicles. The topics are boundary layer instability and transition, real gas flows, laminar hypersonic viscous-inviscid interactions, shock-shock interactions, shock wave-turbulent boundary layer interaction, and base flows with and without plume interaction. A set of experiments were selected by Subgroup 3 participants for each topic and computations were solicited. The experiments are described in this paper. The results of the computations are presented in separate papers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA457154

Entities

People

  • Doyle Knight

Organizations

  • Rutgers University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Base Flow
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Flight
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Gas Flow
  • Hypersonic Flight
  • Hypersonic Vehicles
  • Information Operations
  • New Jersey
  • Plug Nozzles
  • Shock
  • Turbulent Boundary Layer
  • Validation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Boundary Layers
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow