Nosetip bluntness effects on a cone-cylinder-flare at mach 6

EK Benitez, MP Borg, JL Hill - Experiments in Fluids, 2024 - Springer
A cone-cylinder-flare model with sharp and blunt nosetips was tested at the AFRL Mach-6
Ludwieg Tube at a 0\(^{\circ}\) angle of attack. Surface-pressure fluctuation measurements …

Transition to turbulence in hypersonic flow over a compression ramp due to upstream forcing

S Cao, J Hao, P Guo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
Several transition scenarios are present in a hypersonic compression-ramp flow. In our
previous work (Cao et al., J. Fluid Mech., vol. 941, 2022, p. A8), a complete transition …

Separation and transition on a cone-cylinder-flare: computational investigations

C Caillaud, S Esquieu, A Scholten, P Paredes… - AIAA SCITECH 2024 …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
Base flow computation and stability analysis were conducted for hypersonic flow over a
cone-cylinder-flare (CCF) geometry for conditions that correspond to the experimental runs …

Understanding the instability-wave selectivity of hypersonic compression ramp laminar flow

P Guo, J Hao, CY Wen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.11400, 2024 - arxiv.org
The hypersonic flow stability over a two-dimensional compression corner is studied using
resolvent analysis, linear stability theory (LST) and parabolised stability equation (PSE) …

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 …