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Computational Study of Hypersonic Real Gas Flows Over Cylinder Using Energy Relaxation Method (에너지 완화법을 이용한 실린더 주위의 극초음속 실제기체 유동에 관한 수치해석적 연구)

  • Nagdewe, Suryakant;Kim, H.D.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03b
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    • pp.216-217
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    • 2008
  • In recent years, scientific community has found renewed interest in hypersonic flight research. These hypersonic vehicles undergo severe aero-thermal environment during their flight regimes. During reentry and hypersonic flight of these vehicles through atmosphere real gas effects come into play. The analysis of such hypersonic flows is critical for proper aero-thermal design of these vehicles. The numerical simulation of hypersonic real gas flows is a very challenging task. The present work emphasizes numerical simulation of hypersonic flows with thermal non-equilibrium. Hyperbolic system of equations with stiff relaxation method are identified in recent literature as a novel method of predicting long time behaviour of systems such as gas at high temperature. In present work, Energy Relaxation Method (ERM) has been considered to simulate the real gas flows. Navier-Stokes equations A numerical scheme Advection Upstream Splitting Method (AUSM) has been selected. Navier-Stokes solver along with relaxation method has been used for the simulation of real flow over a circular cylinder. Pressure distribution and heat flux over the surface of cylinder has been compared with experiment results of Hannemann. Present heat flux results over the cylinder compared well with experiment. Thus, real gas effects in hypersonic flows can be modeled through energy relaxation method.

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A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF ESTIMATING AERO-OPTIC BORESIGHT ERROR FOR A HYPERSONIC FLIGHT VEHICLE (극초음속 비행체의 공기광학 조준오차 예측을 위한 전산해석 연구)

  • Lim, Seol;Chae, Hoon;Kim, Jongju
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.99-104
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    • 2015
  • Aero-optic phenomena cause the image position displacement on an imaging plane of the airborne optical/IR systems. Particularly, the aero-optic boresight error(BSE) is important factor for homing, positioning and aiming applications of hypersonic flight interceptor missile. In this paper, an estimating method of aero-optic BSE for a hypersonic flight vehicle is studied. A ray tracing method and a transform method of refractive index fields from flow density fields are combined with computational fluid dynamics(CFD) method.

Hypersonic Aero-Heating Ground-Test Simulation Technique

  • Li, Ruiqu;Yao, Dapeng;Sha, Xinguo;Gong, Jian
    • International Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.50-53
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    • 2015
  • It would encounter some complicated flow fields, such as transition, separation, reattachment and disturbances, in the hypersonic flight. Thus, it is difficult to theoretically analyze the hypersonic aerothermodynamics effects, so that the ground-test simulation is thought of as one of the most important methods to improve the understanding level of the hypersonic aerothermodynamics. However, the aero-heating tests could not simulate all aerodynamics and geometry parameters in the real flight due to the differences between the experimental environments supplied by the ground facilities and the flight, so that the feasible technique for the ground-test simulation of the hypersonic aerothermodynamics effects is required to be advanced. The key parameters that are especially required to simulate for aero-heating tests are analyzed and one detailed approach is suggested to perform the experimental investigation on the hypersonic aero-heating effects in the ground facilities in this paper, and the tests are performed in the FD-20 gun tunnel of CAAA (China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics) to give out the data which could be used to confirm the equation from the theoretical analysis.

Computational Study on the Heat Transfer Prediction Hypersonic Flows (극초음속 유동의 열전달 예측에 관한 수치해석적 연구)

  • Nagdewe, Suryakant;Kim, H.D.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.27-30
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    • 2007
  • In recent years, scientific community has found renewed interest in hypersonic flight research. These hypersonic vehicles undergo severe aero-thermal environments during their flight regimes. One of the most important topics of research in hypersonic aerodynamics is to find a reasonable way of calculating either the surface temperature or the heat flux to surface when its temperature is held fixed. This requires modeling of physical and chemical processes. Hyperbolic system of equations with stiff relaxation method are being identified in recent literature as a novel method of predicting long time behavior of systems such as gas at high temperatures. In present work, Energy Relaxation Method (ERM) has been considered to simulate the real gas flow over a 2-D cylinder. Present heat flux results over the cylinder compared well with the experiment. Thus, real gas effects in hypersonic flows can be modeled through energy relaxation method.

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Current Technological Trends in Hypersonic Flight with Air-Breathing Propulsion System (차세대 극초음속 공기흡입식 추진기관의 개발 동향)

  • Lee, Yang-Ji;Kang, Sang-Hun;Yang, Soo-Seok
    • Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.43-55
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    • 2009
  • Advanced countries in aerospace have been struggle to realize the hypersonic air-breathing system since originating the concept of the hypersonic air-breathing propulsion system during the first half of the twentieth century. At last, NASA's X-43A Hyper-X did successful Mach 10 flight in November 2004. Each countries are running the program to applicate this hypersonic air-breathing propulsion system to SSTO(Single Stage to Orbit) or TSTO(Two Stage to Orbit) vehicle or hypersonic missile system at present. In this paper, we wrote the history and current issues of the hypersonic air-breathing propulsion system and hypersonic flight with the hypersonic air-breathing propulsion system.

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Sub-Orbital Hypersonic Flight Test Programs using Sounding Rockets and Small Launch Vehicles (과학로켓 및 소형 발사체를 이용한 준궤도 극초음속 비행시험 프로그램)

  • Kim, Hye-Sung;Yang, Won-Seok;Choi, Jeong-Yeol
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.43 no.3
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    • pp.243-256
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    • 2015
  • As a part of the R&D efforts for the hypersonic vehicles, various flight test programs has been carried out using small launch vehicles or sounding rockets. Australian HyShot program is a representative case of the flight test program for scramjet engines carried by international collaborations. A number of hypersonic flight test programs has followed in a similar way. In USA, Falcon HTV-2 was carried by DARPA, X-51A by AFRL and HyFly by ONR. HyCAUSE and HIFiRE were carried in collaboration with Australia. In France, LEA program is on the way similarly to X-51A. Russia, China and India seems like carrying out flight test programs for the development of hypersonic defense system. The goals, technical elements, the status and the relation between the programs were summarized in this paper as a reference for the similar program of the country in the future.

Research and Development Trends of a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle (HGV) (극초음속 활공 비행체(HGV)의 연구개발 동향)

  • Hwang, Ki-Young;Huh, Hwanil
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.48 no.9
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    • pp.731-743
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    • 2020
  • The hypersonic glide vehicle ascends to a high altitude by a rocket booster, separates it from the booster, and glides at a hypersonic speed of Mach 5 or higher at an altitude of about 30~70 km, changing its direction in the atmosphere. Since it moves on an unpredictable flight path rather than a parabolic trajectory, it is difficult to intercept with current missile defense systems. The U.S. conducted HTV-2 and AHW flight tests in the early 2010s to confirm the possibility of hypersonic gliding flights, and recently it has been developing hypersonic glide vehicle systems such as LRHW and ARRW. China has conducted several flight tests of the DF-ZF (WU-14) glide vehicle since 2014 and has been operating it with DF-17 missiles. Russia has conducted hypersonic glide vehicle research since the former Soviet Union, but it has repeatedly failed, and recently it has been successfully tested with the Avangard (Yu-71) glide vehicle mounted on the SS-19 ICBM. In this paper, the characteristics, flight test cases, and development trends of hypersonic glide vehicles developed or currently being developed in the United States, China, Russia, Japan, India, and Europe are reviewed and summarized.

Trajectory Optimization of a Hypersonic Airplane

  • Takano, H.;Baba, Y.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.156.2-156
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    • 2001
  • Hypersonic civil airplanes are recently heated up again in USA and Japan, but there are several difficulties when we obtain its optimal trajectories. In this paper, we formulated the trajectory optimization problem as an optimal control problem and solved it by the direct shooting method with the Genetic Algorithm, GA. The result shows it is effective to use this method for the trajectory optimization of the hypersonic flight.

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A DESIGN OPTIMIZATION STUDY OF BLUNT NOSE HYPERSONIC FLIGHT VEHICLE MINIMIZING SURFACE HEAT-TRANSFER RATE AND DRAG (표면 열전달율과 항력을 최소화한 극초음속 비행체 선두부 형상 최적설계)

  • Lim S.;Seo J. I.;Kim S. D.;Song D. J.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.10 no.3 s.30
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    • pp.27-35
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    • 2005
  • A design optimization of hypersonic flight vehicle has been studied by using upwind Navier-Stokes method and numerical optimization method. CFD method is linked to numerical optimization method by using a Bezier curve and a design optimization of blunt nose hypersonic flight vehicle has been studied. Heat transfer coefficient and drag coefficient are selected as objective functions or design constraints. The Bezier curve-based shape function was applied to blunt body shape.

Aerodynamic Investigation for Prospective Aerospace Vehicle in the Transitional Regime

  • Ivanovich, Khlopkov Yuri;Myint, Zay Yar Myo;Yurievich, Khlopkov Anton
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.215-221
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    • 2013
  • The basic quantitative tool for the study of hypersonic rarefied flows is the direct simulation Monte Carlo method (DSMC). The DSMC method requires a large amount of computer memory and performance and is unreasonably expensive at the first stage of spacecraft design and trajectory analysis. A possible solution to this problem is approximate engineering methods. However, the Monte Carlo method remains the most reliable approach to compare to the engineering methods that provide good results for the global aerodynamic coefficients of various geometry designs. This paper presents the calculation results of aerodynamic characteristics for spacecraft vehicles in the free molecular, the transitional and the continuum regimes using the local engineering method. Results and methods would be useful to calculate aerodynamics for new-generation hypersonic vehicle designs.