Browsing by Subject "hypersonics"
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(2013-05-15)A key remaining challenge in the design of hypersonic vehicles is the incomplete understanding of the process of boundary-layer transition. Turbulent heating rates are substantially higher than those for a laminar boundary ...
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(2021-07-22)The BOundary Layer Turbulence (BOLT-II) flight experiment proposed by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) is a joint collaboration between academia, industry, and government partners to advance the understanding ...
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(2016-11-29)Hypersonic vehicle development is an important problem of current national interest. Many of the key challenges, such as heat flux, are beyond our current predictive capability. Hence, experimentation is required to help ...
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(2023-04-21)Boundary-layer transition from laminar to turbulent flow critically affects vehicle safety and performance, particularly at hypersonic speeds where heat-transfer rates are extreme. Accounting for transition effects requires ...
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(2021-05-10)The aerodynamic sabot discard process is crucial to the success of hypervelocity testing using less than ideal projectile launch properties or sub-caliber projectiles in smooth bore launchers. Achieving efficient sabot ...
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(2019-01-08)Hypersonics is of current national interest, but improved understanding of fundamental flow physics is required for safe and efficient vehicle design. The objective of the present study was to expand the knowledgebase of ...
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(2020-03-26)The Air Force Office of Scientific Research Boundary Layer Transition (BOLT) flight experiment is a collaboration between academia, government, and industry. The objective was to challenge the hypersonic aerodynamics ...
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(2022-03-28)The Air Force Research Laboratory/Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFRL/AFOSR) introduced the Boundary Layer Turbulence (BOLT II) flight experiment to advance the understanding and modeling of naturally occurring ...
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(2015-04-02)Boundary-layer experiments are performed in the low-disturbance, Mach 6 Quiet Tunnel (M6QT) at Texas A&M University. The experiments are focused specifically on investigating the physics of two three-dimensional phenomena ...
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(2019-08-14)Shock wave turbulence interactions are important problems with ubiquitous applications in high-speed flight and propulsion. The complex physical processes during the interaction are not fully understood, where contemporary ...