Separation and transition on a cone-cylinder-flare: Experimental campaigns

EK Benitez, MP Borg, S Esquieu, C Caillaud… - AIAA SciTech 2024 …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
Several experimental campaigns have been conducted across a number of Mach-6 facilities
on the hypersonic flow around a cone-cylinder-flare (CCF) geometry with a 5 ^∘ half-angle …

Simulated Focused Laser Differential Interferometry of the Hypersonic Second-Mode Instability

EK Benitez, MP Borg, SD Dungan, C Brehm… - AIAA SciTech 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper presents a computational study of double focused laser differential interferometry
(D-FLDI) measurements related to the second (Mack) mode instability. High-fidelity direct …

Separation and Transition on the ROTEX-T Cone-Flare

J Davami, TJ Juliano, A Scholten, P Paredes… - AIAA SCITECH 2024 …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
As part of NATO STO AVT-346 “Predicting Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition on
Complex Geometries,” coordinated experimental and computational studies were conducted …

HIFLIER Hypersonic Flight Experiment: Ascent Results

MP Borg, DW Adamczak, MW Tufts - AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
The goal of the Hypersonic Integrated Flight Research and Experimentation (HIFLIER) flight
experiment was to measure second-mode boundary-layer instabilities and subsequent …

Nosetip Bluntness Effects on the ROTEX-T Cone-Flare

EK Benitez, MP Borg, JL Hill, J Davami… - AIAA AVIATION FORUM …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
The ROTEX-T is a cone-flare geometry that exhibits a separation bubble at the compression
corner at relevant freestream conditions. The geometry was used in a flight test by the …

Multi-depth focused laser differential interferometer based on chromatic aberration

N Webber, R Constantin, S Edwards, M Gragston - Applied Optics, 2024 - opg.optica.org
A modified version of focused laser differential interferometry (FLDI) is demonstrated with
adjacent beam pairs distributed along the optical axis. This feature is accomplished using …

Demonstrating a Multi-Depth Focused Laser Differential Interferometer Based on Chromatic Dispersion

RU Constantin, S Edwards, N Webber… - AIAA AVIATION FORUM …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
This study introduces an improvement of focused laser differential interferometry (FLDI)
featuring an additional laser of a different wavelength to create adjacent beam pairs arrayed …

Focused Laser Differential Interferometry Performance Over an Axisymmetric Model

EK Benitez, MP Borg, S Dungan, C Brehm… - AIAA SCITECH 2024 …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
A direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a transitional hypersonic boundary layer about an
axisymmetric model was conducted and probed by a simulated focused laser differential …

Separation and Transition on a CCF: Experimental Campaigns

EK Benitez, C Caillaud, ZA McDaniel… - AIAA SciTech Forum …, 2024 - ntrs.nasa.gov
Several experimental campaigns have been conducted across a number of Mach-6 facilities
on the hypersonic flow around a CCF (CCF) geometry with a 5° half-angle cone and a 12° …