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SIMULATIONS OF HYPERSONIC FLOW PAST A RE-ENTRY CAPSULE USING DSMC METHOD
R.V. Reji, S. Anil Lal†
Fluid Dynamics Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering Trivandrum, Kerala, India
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Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer 2016, 7, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.5098/hmt.7.27
Abstract
DSMC simulation of re-entry of an object with shape and size close to that of ISRO’s Space Recovery Experiment (SRE) capsule has been analysed
using the open-source tool dsmcFoam for three altitude conditions, viz. 85 km, 100 km and 115 km, and for three angles of attack, viz. 0
o
, 20o&40o
.
The hypersonic free stream velocity of 8000 m/s and boundary surface temperature of 300 K have been used for the simulations. The variation of
parameters such as surface heat flux, surface pressure, shear stress, slip velocity, temperature jump and integrals such as total heat transfer, pressure
drag and frictional drag are reported and discussed in this paper. The variation of temperature in the flow domain and along the stagnation line are
able to clearly distinguish the shock structure and shock stand-off distance. The variation of local number density and the effects of such variations
on the surface temperature and heat flux are discussed. A lower value for nose radius in SRE capsule is found to result in a higher value for peak heat
flux compared to other re-entry capsules investigated.
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Reji, R., Lal, S. A. (2016). SIMULATIONS OF HYPERSONIC FLOW PAST A RE-ENTRY CAPSULE USING DSMC METHOD.
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, 7(1), 1–8.