Jimmy-John O.E. Hoste, Dominique Charbonnier, Andrés Zarabozo, Ambara Bernabeu-Vazquez , Tomasz Witkowski
DOI Number XXX-YYY-ZZZ
Conference Number HiSST-2022-450
This paper presents an overview of the use of CFD to help in the design of various aspects of the
Destinus hyperplanes. CFD is not only relied upon in the aerodynamic shape definition but also
in engine related design tasks including intakes, compressors, turbines, nozzles as well as feeding
components. The different tasks are complementary to rapid engineering design tools and aim at
improving general in-house understanding, semi-empirical modeling capability as well as build surrogate
models. Furthermore, the affordability of CFD can be taken advantage of at much earlier stages in design
and development tasks. The versatility of such an endeavour requires a robust CFD solver capable of
tackling a diverse range of conditions, from subsonic to hypersonic, with associated physics such as
chemical reactions for ideal and real gases, multi-phase flows and conjugate heat transfer. To this end,
the commercial software Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is intensively used at Destinus.