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 …

Among a variety of design requirements, reducing the drag and aeroheating on hypersonic
vehicles is the most crucial one. Unfortunately, these two objectives are often conflicting. On …

One key feature that distinguishes the flowfield around vehicles flying in supersonic and
hypersonic regimes is the bow shock wave ahead of forebody. The severe drag and …

The two main problems in hypersonic vehicles are wave drag and aerodynamic heating.
This work proposes a novel method for drag reduction by combining spikes with the plasma …

Vehicles flying at supersonic/hypersonic speeds would encounter severe aerodynamic and
aerothermodynamic environment, and hypersonic vehicles would produce high pressure …

When flying at supersonic or hypersonic speeds through the air, the drag and severe
heating have a great impact on the vehicles, thus the drag reduction and thermal protection …

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 …

Experimental and computational studies have been made to obtain the effect of spike shape
and length on the flow over a blunt body at supersonic Mach number of 2at zero angles of …

Drag reduction at high speed flows around blunt bodies is one of the major challenges in the
field of aerodynamics. Using of spikes and counterflow jets each of them separately for …

Heat transfer reduction around blunt bodies is one of the important issues in the field of high
speed aerodynamics. Using of spikes and counterflow jets each of them separately for …