Hypersonic Turbulence Flow Measurements and Simulations
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Aeronautics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 1878
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fluid mechanics; aeronautics; aerothermodynamics; turbulence; heat transfer; experimental fluid mechanics; computational fluid dynamics; porous materials; hypersonic boundary layer transition; transition control
Interests: large eddy and direct simulations; hypersonic transition and turbulence; thermoacoustics; non-linear acoustics; heat-and-mass transfer; high-order methods for unstructured grid
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new Special Issue on “Hypersonic Turbulence Flow Measurements and Simulations” in the Open Access journal Aerospace with the aim to showcase the state of the art of this discipline and to disseminate new ideas in a field which has recently experienced enormous interest.
Accurate aerodynamic predictions are critical for the design and optimization of hypersonic vehicles. Turbulence modeling remains a major source of uncertainty in the computational prediction of aerodynamic forces and heating for these systems. Currently, large discrepancies exist between predicted and measured turbulent aerodynamic heating, drag over high-speed configurations, and mean turbulent flow features above complex geometries and/or non-equilibrium conditions, warranting the urgent development and improvement of multi-fidelity computational models.
High-quality experimental and computational databases for turbulence at Mach numbers above 5 are just starting to make their way into the literature. The present Special Issue aims at boosting the process by inviting contributions focusing on experimental and numerical studies in the field.
Topics covered include but are not limited to:
- Experimental test cases on generic and complex geometries exhibiting turbulent flow;
- Best practice in hypersonic boundary layer tripping;
- Diagnostics for use in hypersonic turbulent boundary layers as well as high-speed high-enthalpy diagnostics;
- Review of operational envelope of wind tunnel test facilities with test conditions relevant to hypersonic turbulence;
- Definition of canonical test cases relevant to hypersonic flight;
- Detailed comparison of state of the art:
- numerical strategies such as DNS, LES, etc.;
- modeling strategies such as WMLES, DES etc.;
on the same canonical or complex flow setup;
- DNS, LES and flow measurements of:
- reproduceable/canonical compressible turbulence cases such as homogeneous isotropic turbulence, channel flow, spatially developing boundary layers, mixing layers, hollow cylinders, cones;
- complex flow scenarios involving pressure gradient effects, double curvature effects (Bolt-II), or non-zero angles of attack;
- detailed comparison of state-of-the-art modeling strategies for turbulence/chemistry effects including LES of reactive flows, modeling of high-enthalpy flow effects, non-thermochemical equilibrium.
Dr. Alexander Wagner
Dr. Carlo Scalo
Guest Editors
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