Abstract
HyFIE project aimed at improving the measurement techniques in hypersonic wind tunnels and comparing the experimental data provided by four major European facilities: DLR HEG and H2K, ONERA F4 and VKI Longshot. A common geometry of EXPERT body was chosen and four different models were used. A large amount of experimental data was collected and compared with the results of numerical simulations. Collapsing all the measured values showed a good agreement between the different facilities, as well as between experimental and computed data.
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Abbreviations
- AoA:
-
Angle of attack
- C m :
-
Pitching moment coefficient
- C p :
-
Pressure coefficient
- C x :
-
Drag coefficient (model frame)
- C z :
-
Lift coefficient (model frame)
- d :
-
Shock stand-off distance
- H 0 :
-
Reservoir enthalpy
- L :
-
Model length
- M :
-
Mach number
- p :
-
Static pressure
- p stag :
-
Stagnation point pressure
- P 0 :
-
Reservoir pressure
- q :
-
Wall heat flux
- q stag :
-
Stagnation point heat flux
- R nose :
-
Nose curvature radius
- Re L :
-
Reynolds number (wrt model length)
- t :
-
Time
- x :
-
Axial coordinate
- y :
-
Transverse coordinate
- z :
-
Vertical coordinate
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This project was initiated and granted by ESA under contract 20719/07/NL/IA. The authors would like to thank the Project Technical Officer Louis Walpot for his interest and close support to this work, as well as all the many people involved in this project (ONERA Toulouse, Palaiseau and Fauga-Mauzac, DLR Göttingen, Cologne and Braunschweig, VKI).
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Brazier, JP., Martinez Schramm, J., Paris, S. et al. An overview of HyFIE Technical Research Project: cross-testing in main European hypersonic wind tunnels on EXPERT body. CEAS Space J 8, 167–176 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12567-016-0117-5
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