Validation of Plasma Injection for Hypersonic Blunt-Body Drag Reduction

Abstract

The optimum blend of numerical and physical fluid experiment for risk and cost reduction is an actual reflection of the stage of maturation for individual technology development. As an illustration, the detailed validation of drag reduction technique using plasma injection was investigated using a side-by-side experimental and computational approach. The major portion of the reduced drag is found from the favorable counter-flow jet shock interaction and thermal deposition.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADP014177

Entities

People

  • J. S. Shang

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Blunt Bodies
  • Bow Shock
  • Chemical Composition
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Mach Number
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Measurement
  • Navier Stokes Equations
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Stagnation Pressure
  • Stagnation Temperature
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow