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Numerical simulation of the flow field over conical, disc and flat spiked body at Mach 6

  • R. C. Mehta (a1)
Abstract

A forward facing spike attached to a hemispherical body significantly changes its flow field and influences aerodynamic drag and wall heat flux in a high speed flow. The dynamic pressure in the recirculation area is highly reduced and this leads to the decrease in the aerodynamic drag and heat load on the surface. Consequently, the geometry, that is, the length and shape of the spike, has to be simulated in order to obtain a large conical recirculation region in front of the blunt body to get beneficial drag reduction. It is, therefore, a potential candidate for aerodynamic drag reduction for a future high speed vehicle. Axisymmetric compressible laminar Navier-Stokes equations are solved using a finite volume discretisation in conjunction with a multistage Runge-Kutta time stepping scheme. The effect of the spike length and shape, and the spike nose configuration on the reduction of drag is numerically evaluated at Mach 6 at a zero angle-of-attack. The computed density contours agree well with the schlieren images. Additional modification to the tip of the spike to get different types of flow field such as the formation of a shock wave, separation area and reattachment point are examined. The spike geometries include the conical spike, the flat-disk spike and the hemispherical disk spike of different length to diameter ratios attached to the blunt body.

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