THERMAL SCIENCE
International Scientific Journal
NUMERICAL STUDY ON AERODYNAMIC HEAT OF HYPERSONIC FLIGHT
ABSTRACT
Accurate prediction of the shock wave has a significant effect on the development of space transportation vehicle or exploration missions. Taking Lobb sphere as the example, the aerodynamic heat of hypersonic flight in different Mach numbers is simulated by the finite volume method. Chemical reactions and non-equilibrium heat are taken into account in this paper, where convective flux of the space term adopts the Roe format, and discretization of the time term is achieved by backward Euler algorithm. The numerical results reveal that thick mesh can lead to accurate prediction, and the thickness of the shock wave decreases as grid number increases. Furthermore, most of kinetic energy converts into internal energy crossing the shock wave.
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PAPER SUBMITTED: 2015-11-06
PAPER REVISED: 2016-02-01
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2016-02-21
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2016-08-13
THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR
2016, VOLUME
20, ISSUE
Issue 3, PAGES [939 - 944]
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