Alper ÖSÜN, Christian MUNDT
DOI Number: N/A
Conference number: HiSST-2025-065
Aerodynamic heating remains a critical aspect of hypersonic flight vehicle design. Many experiments in ground-based test facilities and flight experiments have been conducted to determine surface heat fluxes and temperature distribution. In parallel, the advent of high-performance computers and computational techniques permits the calculation of flow physics. Within this study, aerothermodynamic simulation results of an experimental hypersonic vehicle are provided under consideration of radiation heat exchange between solid surfaces at concave regions. The RANS approach is used to solve for the flow field, and a visibility module is coupled with the flow solver to account for radiation effects in
concave regions. The resulting delta surface temperature distribution and infrared signatures highlight the significance of the solid surface radiation heat transfer at concave regions for the thermal analysis of hypersonic vehicles.
