A sharp, circular 7 half-angle cone was tested in the Boeing/AFOSR Mach-6 Quiet Tunnel at
6 angle of attack, extending several previous experiments on the growth and breakdown of …

Non-modal linear stability analysis results are presented for hypersonic flow over an elliptic
cone with an aspect ratio of two at zero angle of attack, completing earlier modal instability …

An accurate boundary-layer transition prediction method integrated with computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) solvers is pursued for hypersonic boundary-layer flows over slender …

Momentum potential theory (MPT) is employed to establish a physics-based interpretation of
the traveling crossflow mode and analyze the underlying stabilization mechanisms of …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-2886. vid Experimental studies of
cones at several high-speed facilities have demonstrated that, for small nosetip bluntness …

The effects of nose radius and angle of attack on the linear modal amplification over blunt
circular cones at hypersonic speeds are computationally investigated. The three …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-2828. vid Predicting transition
locations over a vehicle surface is of fundamental importance for many engineering …

Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation 5 (HIFiRE-5) is a hypersonic flight-
test experiment designed to investigate the aerothermodynamics of a 3-D geometry. The …

Zero-or low-frequency crossflow instabilities play a dominant role in the hypersonic
boundary layer over a swept blunt plate. However, high-frequency second-mode …

An accurate physics-based transition prediction method integrated with computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) solvers is pursued for hypersonic boundary layer flows over slender …