Instability and Receptivity of Complex Hypersonic Flows using Input/Output Analysis

Abstract

The proposed research investigates hypersonic boundary layer instability and receptivity for complex, fully three-dimensional geometries using Input/Output (I/O) analysis with a shock kinematic boundary condition (SKBC). Our approach directly incorporates of effects of multiple modes of instability as well as a model of shock/perturbation interaction to capture receptivity to freestream perturbations. We will apply I/O analysis to a series of Navy-relevant geometries involving blunt cones with highly swept fins and we will study the effects of different fin sweep angles and thicknesses. This will require some of the largest I/O analysis calculations to date. To accomplish this, we will leverage codes developed in a previous ONR-supported effort. I/O analysis based on the Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method using a preconditioned iterative linear solver has recently allowed our team to access order-of-magnitude larger problems than ever before, so we are well-positioned for success. We will also leverage data produced as part of a recent MURI on the effect of atmospheric disturbances on hypersonic flows, combining them with the results of the planned I/O analysis to understand the receptivity of a complex hypersonic boundary layer to realistic freestream disturbances.Approved for PublicRelease.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
May 15, 2023
Source ID
N000142312460

Entities

People

  • Joseph Nichols

Organizations

  • Office of Naval Research
  • Regents of the University of Minnesota
  • United States Navy

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Technology Areas

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