TY - JOUR
T1 - Ground test studies of the HIFiRE-1 transition experiment Part 2
T2 - Computational analysis
AU - MacLean, Matthew
AU - Wadhams, Timothy
AU - Holden, Michael
AU - Johnson, Heath
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Comparisons to measurements made in the Calspan-University at Buffalo Research Center LENS I facility on a full-scale HIFiRE-1 vehicle at duplicated flight conditions have been made with the computational fluid dynamics code DPLR and the parabolized stability equation code STABL. These comparisons include laminar heating, transition onset, turbulent heating, and turbulent flare separation for the test article at 0 deg angle of attack. Predictions of transition onset with the parabolized stability equation algorithm correlate to an average N factor of 5.7 with a standard deviation of 0.75 and show the proper trend with regard to entropy-layer and boundary-layer effects. Extrapolating the parabolized stability equation solutions to the most likely flight environment will lead to a delay in onset of approximately 20 cm on the forebody. On the turbulent forebody, heating predictions compared with ground test measurements have shown that Reynolds average Navier-Stokes turbulence models can overpredict the measurements by up to 30%, and initial investigations suggest that this discrepancy may be linked to total-to-wall-temperature ratio. In the interaction region, the most popular Reynolds average Navier-Stokes models in their nominal form fail to capture the necessary features of the flowfield; however, proper limiting of the Reynolds stress tensor can accurately predict the size of the separated region and provide sufficiently good agreement for a design level calculation.
AB - Comparisons to measurements made in the Calspan-University at Buffalo Research Center LENS I facility on a full-scale HIFiRE-1 vehicle at duplicated flight conditions have been made with the computational fluid dynamics code DPLR and the parabolized stability equation code STABL. These comparisons include laminar heating, transition onset, turbulent heating, and turbulent flare separation for the test article at 0 deg angle of attack. Predictions of transition onset with the parabolized stability equation algorithm correlate to an average N factor of 5.7 with a standard deviation of 0.75 and show the proper trend with regard to entropy-layer and boundary-layer effects. Extrapolating the parabolized stability equation solutions to the most likely flight environment will lead to a delay in onset of approximately 20 cm on the forebody. On the turbulent forebody, heating predictions compared with ground test measurements have shown that Reynolds average Navier-Stokes turbulence models can overpredict the measurements by up to 30%, and initial investigations suggest that this discrepancy may be linked to total-to-wall-temperature ratio. In the interaction region, the most popular Reynolds average Navier-Stokes models in their nominal form fail to capture the necessary features of the flowfield; however, proper limiting of the Reynolds stress tensor can accurately predict the size of the separated region and provide sufficiently good agreement for a design level calculation.
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U2 - 10.2514/1.37693
DO - 10.2514/1.37693
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:57349130640
SN - 0022-4650
VL - 45
SP - 1149
EP - 1164
JO - Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets
JF - Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets
IS - 6
ER -