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Volume 3, 2012
Progress in Flight Physics
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| Page(s) | 267 - 276 | |
| Section | Chapter Three. High Enthalpy Flows | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eucass/201203267 | |
| Published online | 29 January 2013 | |
Chemical nonequilibrium effects in the wake of an obstacle in hypersonic boundary-layer flows
Lehrstuhl für Aerodynamik Technische Universität München Garching b. München D-85748, Germany
Various complex flow features occur in reentry scenarios. This paper aims to investigate the influence of chemical nonequilibrium effects on the wake of a cuboid obstacle, sized about half the boundary layer thickness, in hypersonic boundary layer flows. The geometry here was chosen according to NASA HyBoLT experiment as explained in [1], where the basic shape is a wedge with a half angle of 6°. The freestream flow was chosen to have atmospheric conditions at an altitude of 42.5 km and a Mach number of 8.5. Simulations were obtained with 3 different gas models, a caloric one, one assuming chemical equilibrium, and the last considering chemical nonequilibrium. Two-dimensional (2D) direct numerical simulation (DNS) was used over the whole domain to extract inflow profiles for three-dimensional (3D) DNS of a reduced domain.
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