Michigan/Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Collaborative Center in Aeronautical Sciences (MACCAS)

Abstract

The Michigan/AFRL Collaborative Center in Aeronautical Sciences (MACCAS) was awarded as a partnership with the Computational Sciences Center of AFRL. MACCAS consisted of a number of highly accomplished faculty members along with research staff and graduate students from the University of Michigan (UM). The initial focus of the MACCAS was on developing and integrating all of the computational tools required to perform reliable, high-fidelity, multidisciplinary analysis of air-breathing, hypersonic vehicle concepts. High-performance software was the critical medium of research and an important product of the collaboration. In addition to high-speed aerophysics that is related to hypersonic flight, AFRL's current and projected interest in the following areas was also fully incorporated into our plan: fine-scale unsteady fluid dynamics, and enabling computational technologies and software engineering research. The following titles (on reverse side) published in professional journals and conference proceedings are provided in the appendix: * "Numerical Study of Energy Deposition Requirements for Aerodynamic Control of Hypersonic Vehicles" * "Numerical Study of Plasma-Assisted Aerodynamic Control for Hypersonic Vehicles" * "Numerical Study of Electromagnetic Aerodynamic Control of Hypersonic Vehicles" * "Numerical Study of Magnetoaerodynamic Flow around a Hemisphere" (published in the Proceedings of the 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting) * "Numerical Study of a MHD-Heat Shield" * "Numerical Study of Plasma-Assisted Aerodynamic Control for Hypersonic Vehicles" * "Numerical Study of Magnetoaerodynamic Flow Around a Hemisphere (published in the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets) * "State Resolved Vibrational Relaxation Modeling for Strongly Nonequilibrium Flows" * "Evaluation of a Hybrid Boltzmann-Continuum Method for High Speed Nonequilibrium Flows" plus nine additional articles.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA594530

Entities

People

  • Kenneth G. Powell
  • Wei Shyy

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aeroelasticity
  • Aircrafts
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Energy Transfer
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Mechanical Phenomena
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Research.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flight
  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster