Experimental investigation on drag and heat flux reduction in supersonic/hypersonic flows: A survey

Z Wang, X Sun, W Huang, S Li, L Yan - Acta Astronautica, 2016 - Elsevier
The drag and heat reduction problem of hypersonic vehicles has always attracted the
attention worldwide, and the experimental test approach is the basis of theoretical analysis …

Detailed parametric investigations on drag and heat flux reduction induced by a combinational spike and opposing jet concept in hypersonic flows

M Ou, L Yan, W Huang, S Li, L Li - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the current study, the flow field behavior induced by a novel combinational opposing jet
and spike concept has been investigated numerically. A comprehensive analysis on the …

Drag and heat flux reduction induced by the pulsed counterflowing jet with different periods on a blunt body in supersonic flows

R Zhang, W Huang, L Li, L Yan, R Moradi - International Journal of Heat …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the current study, three different kinds of pulsed jets with the period being 0.5 ms, 1.0 ms
and 2.0 ms are established, and sinusoidal waveforms are used in all three pulsed jets. The …

Coupled investigation on drag reduction and thermal protection mechanism induced by a novel combinational spike and multi-jet strategy in hypersonic flows

L Zhu, Y Li, L Gong, X Chen, J Xu - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2019 - Elsevier
Drag and heat reduction strategy in hypersonic vehicle design has already attracted
worldwide attention. In this paper, a novel combinational spike and multi-jet strategy has …

Investigation of influence factors to the reduction of hypersonic blunt-body drag and aeroheating based on a spike-aerodisk-channel concept

Z Wang, S Fang, J Guo, Z Ni, Y Xu - Acta Astronautica, 2023 - Elsevier
By slotting an inlet at the head of the aerodisk, a channel through the spike, and the lateral
jet outlet at the middle of the spike, the blunt body with spike-aerodisk can further reduce its …

Investigation on the drag reduction and thermal protection properties of the porous opposing jet in the supersonic flow: A parametric study with constant mass flow rate

C Ji, B Liu, W Huang, S Li, L Yan - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
The studies of the influencing factors of the porous opposing jet on drag reduction and
thermal protection have shown that an important performance of the drag reduction variation …

Parametric research on drag reduction and thermal protection of blunt-body with opposing jets of forward convergent nozzle in supersonic flows

Z Wang, X Zhang - Acta Astronautica, 2022 - Elsevier
Extreme drag and aerodynamic heat are the main penalties for blunt forebody of supersonic
vehicles. This results in shorter flight range and higher fuel consumption, and aerodynamic …

Investigating the supersonic combustion efficiency for the jet-in-cross-flow

AM Tahsini, ST Mousavi - International journal of Hydrogen energy, 2015 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of impinging oblique shock on
combustion efficiency of hydrogen injection into the supersonic cross-flow. The two …

Experimental study of forward-facing cavity with energy deposition in hypersonic flow conditions

B Sudarshan, S Deep, V Jayaram, G Jagadeesh… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Controlling nose surface peak heat fluxes is crucial to the design of hypersonic vehicles. In
this study, we report a novel technique of convective heat flux reduction on the nose surface …

Drag and heat flux reduction induced by the pulsed counterflowing jet with different waveforms on a blunt body in supersonic flows

R Zhang, W Huang, L Yan, Z Chen, R Moradi - Acta Astronautica, 2019 - Elsevier
The drag and heat flux reduction characteristics plays a very important role in the conceptual
design phase and engineering realization of the aerospace vehicle. In the current study, the …