The recent resurgence in hypersonics is centered around the development of SCRAMJET engine technology to power future hypersonic vehicles. Successful flight trials by Australian and American scientists have created interest in the scramjet engine research across the globe. To develop scramjet engine, it is important to study heat transfer effects on the engine performance and aerodynamic forces acting on the body. Hence, the main aim of present investigation is the design of scramjet engine configuration and measurement of aerodynamic forces acting on the model and heat transfer rates along the length of the combustor. The model is a two-dimensional single ramp model and is designed based on shock-on-lip (SOL) condition. Experiments are performed in IISc hypersonic shock tunnel HST2 at two different Mach numbers of 8 and 7 for different angles of attack. Aerodynamic forces measurements using three-component accelerometer force balance and heat transfer rates measurements using platinum thin film sensors deposited on Macor substrate are some of the shock tunnel flow diagnostics that have been used in this study.

Thermal Protection System (TPS) is required to shield an atmospheric entry vehicle against the high surface heating environment experienced during hypersonic flight. There are significant uncertainties in the tools and models currently used for the prediction of entry aeroheating and TPS material thermal response. These uncertainties can be reduced using experimental data. Analysis of TPS ground and flight data has been traditionally performed in a direct fashion. Direct analyses center upon comparison of the computational model predictions to data. Qualitative conclusions about model validity may be drawn based on this comparison and a limited number of model parameters may be iteratively adjusted to obtain a better match between predictions and data. The goal of this thesis is to develop a more rigorous methodology for the estimation of surface heating and TPS material response using inverse estimation theory. Built on theoretical developments made in related fields, this methodology enables the estimation of uncertainties in both the aeroheating environment and material properties from experimental temperature data. Unlike direct methods, the methodology developed here is capable of estimating a large number of independent parameters simultaneously and reconstructing the time-dependent surface heating profile in an automated fashion. This methodology is applied to flight data obtained from thermocouples embedded in the Mars Pathfinder and Mars Science Laboratory entry vehicle heatshields.

Des méthodes numériques sont présentées qui permettent la simulation de jets chauds débouchants dans un écoulement transverse aux grands nombres de Reynolds et aux rapports des vitesses faibles. Différentes approches pour la modélisation de turbulence, c'est-à-dire URANS, SAS, DDES et ELES, sont validées par comparaison à des données expérimentales pour une configuration générique, soulignant la nécessité de résoudre les différentes échelles turbulentes pour une prévision correcte du mélange thermique. L'analyse de la solution instationnaire permet l'identification de processus dynamiques intrinsèques ainsi que des phénomènes de mélange et l'application de l'analyse en composantes principales révèle l'ondulation latérale du sillage de jet. Du fait du caractère multi-échelles qui se manifeste dans la simulation d'un jet débouchant sur une configuration avion, l'approche séquentielle basée sur le modèle SAS est mise en place. Comme les résultats pour la sortie d'un système de dégivrage de nacelle sont en bon accord avec les données d'essai en vol, cette approche est finalement appliquée à la sortie complexe d'un système de pre-cooler, mettant en valeur sa capacité à être appliquée dans un processus industriel. / Numerical methods for the simulation of hot jets in cross flow at high Reynolds numbers and small momentum ratios are presented. Different turbulence modeling strategies, i.e. URANS, SAS, DDES and ELES, are validated against experimental data on a generic configuration, highlighting the necessity of scale-resolution for a correct prediction ofthermal mixing. The analysis of transient flow simulations allows the identification of inherent flow dynamics as well as mixing phenomena and the application of the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition revealed the lateral wake meandering as being one of them. Due to the multi-scale problem which arises when simulating jets in cross flow on real aircraft configurations, the sequential approach based on the SAS turbulence model is introduced. As results for the exhaust of a nacelle anti-icing system comprising multiple jets in cross flow agree well with flight test data, the approach is applied in a last step to the complex exhaust of a pre-cooling system, emphasizing the capabilities of this methodology in an industrial environment.

In the flying field of space transportation domain, the increased efforts involving design and development of hypersonic flight for space missions is on toe to provide the optimum aerothermodynamic design data to satisfy mission requirements. Aerothermodynamics is the basis for designing and development of hypersonic space transportation flight vehicles such as X 51 a, and other programmes like planetary probes for Moon and Mars, and Earth re-entry vehicles such as SRE and space shuttle. It enables safe flying of aerospace vehicles, keeping other parameters optimum for structural and materials with thermal protection systems. In this context, the experimental investigations on hypersonic waverider are carried out at design Mach 6. The hypersonic waverider has high lift to drag ratio at design Mach number even at zero degree angle of incidence, and this seems to be one of the special characteristics for its shape at hypersonic flight regime. The heat transfer rates are measured using 30 thin film platinum gauges sputtered on a Macor material that are embedded on the test model. The waverider has 16 sensors on top surface and 14 on bottom surface of a model. The surface temperature history is directly converted to heat transfer rates. The heat transfer data are measured for design (Mach 6) and off-design Mach numbers (8) in the hypersonic shock tunnel, HST2. The results are obtained at stagnation enthalpy of ~ 2 MJ/kg, and Reynolds number range from 0.578 x 106 m-1 to 1.461 x 106 m-1. In addition, flow visualization is carried out by using Schlieren technique to obtain the shock structures and flow evolution around the Waverider. Some preliminary computational analyses are conducted using FLUENT 6.3 and HiFUN, which gave quantitative results. Experimentally measured surface heat flux data are compared with the computed one and both the data agree well. These detailed results are presented in the thesis.

Laminar turbulent transition is known for a long time as a critical phenomenon influencing the thermal load encountered by hypersonic vehicle during their planetary re-entry trajectory. Despite the efforts made by several research laboratories all over the world, the prediction of transition remains inaccurate, leading to oversized thermal protection system and dramatic limitations of hypersonic vehicles performances. One of the reasons explaining the difficulties encountered in predicting transition is the wide variety of parameters playing a role in the phenomenon. Among these parameters, surface roughness is known to play a major role and has been investigated in the present thesis.<p><p>A wide bibliographic review describing the main parameters affecting transition and their coupling is proposed. The most popular roughness-induced transition predictions correlations are presented, insisting on the lack of physics included in these methods and the difficulties encountered in performing ground hypersonic transition experiments representative of real flight characteristics. This bibliographic review shows the importance of a better understanding of the physical phenomenon and of a wider experimental database, including real flight data, for the development of accurate prediction methods.<p><p>Based on the above conclusions, a hypersonic experimental test campaign is realized for the characterization of the flow field structure in the vicinity and in the wake of 3D roughness elements. This fundamental flat plate study is associated with numerical simulations for supporting the interpretation of experimental results and thus a better understanding of transition physics. Finally, a model is proposed in agreement with the wind tunnel observations and the bibliographic survey.<p><p>The second principal axis of the present study is the development of a hypersonic in-flight roughness-induced transition experiment in the frame of the European EXPERT program. These flight data, together with various wind tunnel measurements are very important for the development of a wide experimental database supporting the elaboration of future transition prediction methods. / Doctorat en Sciences de l'ingénieur / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

A series of experiments were carried out in Purdue University’s Boeing/AFOSR Mach6 Quiet Tunnel, to understand the amplification of streamwise vortices across a separated region in a quiet flow regime. Streamwise vortices were induced on the upstream end of an axisymmetric model consisting of a 7-degree half-angle cone, a cylinder, and a 10-degree flare. The instabilities were seeded using a pre-existing set of roughness inserts, with small, discrete roughness elements. The elements varied in spacing, height, and number of elements. The model was aligned to near 0.0 degree angle of attack. <div><br></div><div>The streamwise, Gortler-like instabilities travelled across the separated region onto the flare, where they were measured with pressure transducers and infrared thermography. The amplification of the instabilities was measured at a variety of Reynolds numbers, under both quiet and conventional noise flow. The results were compared to those of a smooth insert. Heat transfer results showed a streaking pattern, with a peak in heating visible in the streak. Heat flux increased linearly with Reynolds number. If transition was induced, the heat flux would begin to decrease. Power spectral density measurements of the pressure fluctuations indicated that the region within the streak contained two notable instabilities, one between 70 and 150 kHz, and one between 200 and 250 kHz. Transition was only measured in the spectral content in the region on the flare where a ”filling in” of streaks was visible in heat transfer results. Heat flux increased in an nonlinear manner with increasing roughness height. </div><div><br></div><div>The streak positioning and peak heat flux showed a high sensitivity to small, uncontrollable changes in run conditions throughout. Heat transfer results were largely repeatable for small angles of attack, less than 0.1 degrees. The streaks shifted slightly in width and position for angles of attack near 0.1 degrees. Small changes in the streak positioning and heat transfer magnitude were seen in repeatability runs; this is mostly attributable to small changes in initial run conditions. </div>

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<p>Accurate and reliable prediction of laminar-turbulent boundary layer transition at hypersonic velocities is important for the development of a variety of practical high-speed flight systems currently under development. Boundary layer transition can cause up to an order of magnitude increase in skin friction and heat flux on a flight vehicle, meaning that understanding boundary layer behavior is critical to the design of weight-efficient thermal protection systems. Despite the importance of the topic, significant gaps remain in the community's current understanding of boundary layer transition and control. </p> <p>One of the biggest areas of concern in the field of high-speed boundary layer transition is the effect of facility noise on wind tunnel measurements. Conventional hypersonic wind tunnels are contaminated by freestream fluctuations which can be as much as two orders of magnitude higher than free-flight atmospheric conditions. These disturbances are typically produced by turbulent boundary layers on the tunnel walls; they are acoustic in nature and consist of pressure waves which radiate into the test section. This facility noise plays a leading role in high-speed transition phenomena in conventional hypersonic tunnels.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The current work studies the effects of facility noise on hypersonic transition using both linear stability theory and direct numerical simulation. A model for the freestream disturbance environment of the von Karman Facility's Tunnel B based on experimental measurements of the disturbance spectra present in the tunnel is created and used to study a past experiment performed in the same wind tunnel using a sharp cone and hollow cylinder. The results show that while linear stability theory accurately captures the behavior of second-mode instability growth, it fails to predict the growth of low-frequency instabilities recorded in the experiments. The stability theory analysis also suggests that very fine scale variation in nose tip geometry can play an outsize role in the development of boundary layer instabilities significantly farther downstream.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The direct numerical simulation demonstrates that, using an artificial body forcing term to implement the constructed tunnel noise model, the experimental effects of facility noise can be adequately captured with a sufficiently dense computational grid. For the conical geometry used in the experiments, calculations of surface heat flux indicate good experimental agreement with in prediction of transition location, and total temperature spectra extracted from the flow compare favorably with the experimental data as well. Visualizations of the flowfield confirm the onset of turbulence as a result of the freestream forcing. The computations also suggest that nonlinear interactions may be present in the turbulent breakdown region, leading to the production of streamwise streaks along the cone's surface. Transition on the hollow cylinder was not achieved due to suspected resolution issues, so detailed physical comparison of the two cases was not possible.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Overall, the results of this work suggest that direct numerical simulation is a capable tool for studying the effects of facility noise on hypersonic transition for simple geometries, albeit one which can be difficult to practically realize considering the required computational cost. Computational results indicate that two phenomena may play a role in the development of boundary layer instabilities for a sharp cone --- the fine-scale shape of the tip, which may change the behavior of the entropy layer near the nose; and the interactions between low- and high-frequency waveforms, which seems to cause nonlinear breakdown in line with current experimental understanding.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The high-order, block spectral numerics of the Navier-Stokes solver H³AMR are presented. H³AMR operates on unstructured meshes where each unstructured hexahedral element can be considered its own block-spectral domain exchanging fluxes with other elements on faces between element boundaries. The solver features two forms of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR): through increasing or decreasing the polynomial order within each element (P-refinement); or by subdividing each hexahedral element in half in each computational direction yielding 8 sub-elements that can then be further refined hierarchically (H-refinement). Fluxes between elements and along domain boundaries are exchanged and re-interpolated within the mesh using Flux Reconstruction (FR) numerical methods. H³AMR allows for arbitrarily high-order solution reconstructions, allowing for the simulation of strong gradients in hypersonic boundary layers and capturing the wave-like nature of waves such as second modes.</p><p dir="ltr">H³AMR was validated in two canonical cases: a flat plate at near zero angle of attack and a 3-degree half angle cone at zero-degrees angle of attack. Both cases only considered the low enthalpy conditions achievable in the BAM6QT and the AFRL Mach 6 Ludwieg Tube at Wright-Patterson AFB, spanning Freestream Reynolds numbers from 4-22 million/meter. The solver was validated against experimental data measuring the development of the second-mode instability along the surface of each geometry. The computations and experimental data were both verified against Linear Stability Theory (LST) and agreement was found across all three measurement and analysis techniques. Best practices were developed for the the external, non-reacting hypersonic flows with spectral numerics, including the determination of a minimum resolution is required for stable simulations.</p><p dir="ltr">The effects of high-porosity Silicon-Carbide (SiC) as a surrogate for porous aeroshell material was investigated with LST using the Impedance Boundary Condition (IBC) to computationally model the acoustic absorptivity of the material using the Johnson-Champoux-Allard (JCA) model to relate pressure and second mode frequency to absorption. The material was applied to the aforementioned geometries at specific locations to attenuate second mode growth. Due to the low angle of attack and memory effects at the tip of the flat geometry, H³AMR was required to generate a basic state for LST from the laminar solution of the Navier-Stokes equations. The sharp cone geometry was allowed to use a rescaled compressible Blasius' solution as the basic state. While the SiC foams showed significant second mode suppression, an ''over shoot'' in second mode amplitude was observed before breakdown when the SiC foam was applied in comparison to the solid wall experiments. While the SiC foams were effective at attenuating the high-frequency modes, LST was used to predict the exacerbation of low-frequency growth modes that result from the application of the SiC foam and may cause the overshoot in second mode amplitude before transition.</p><p dir="ltr">With the validation and verification of H³AMR for external flows completed, the code was used in transitional simulations of the High-Speed Army Reference Vehicle (HARV) geometries to investigate the effects of pressure gradients on second mode wave growth. These geometries feature a 20 inch long blunted cone-cylinder geometry with the conical frustum taking up one half of the overall length. Two variants of the geometry exist on the frustum section with different streamwise pressure profiles: a straight cone version and a Von Karman ogive. The nose tip bluntness is 2.54mm on both geometries. The geometries are first simulated at freestream conditions matching those found at in the Boeing and Air Force Mach 6 Quiet Tunnel (BAM6QT) at Purdue University at a freestream Reynolds number of 10-20 million/meter with a wall temperature ratio of 0.84 (310K). These conditions on both geometries were found to be overwhelmingly stable in both numerical studies and wind tunnel experiments, with no transition being seen at any of the Reynolds numbers or frustum variants. To further destabilize the boundary layer, the Reynolds number was doubled twice to 40 and 80 million/meter and the wall temperature ratio was decreased by half twice from 0.84 to 0.42 to 0.21 (155K and 75K respectively). While the onset of transition at these conditions seemed plausible, transition was deemed unlikely by the axisymmetric stability analysis, Unsteady DNS fed by a finite time of wall-normal suction and blowing with a pink-noise profile showed the possible existence of non-modal mechanisms that may lead to break down for extreme wall cooling. The ogive geometry was deemed marginally more unstable than the straight cone geometry, despite the adverse pressure gradient environment. This effect may be in competition with the stabilizing effect extended entropy layer on the straight cone geometry.</p><p dir="ltr">Finally, 3D time accurate simulations over both geometries were ran over an 8-degree arc sector of the cone to open up the ability for oblique wave modes to exist and determine if any three-dimensional effects might lead to the onset of transition. No breakdown to turbulence was observed in the conditions tested. While these simulations did not contain the comprehensive list of conditions as the axisymmetric simulations did, the Reynolds number and wall temperature tested showed itself to be exceedingly stable, and did not show any signs of break down to turbulence.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Pressure transducer, infrared heat transfer, and schlieren imaging data for a flared cone and cone-cylinder-flare in Mach 6 quiet flow are presented. Flared cone pressure transducer results show second-mode RMS values comparable to that found in prior experimental work. Second-mode frequency is found to linearly increase with increasing freestream unit Reynolds number, and frequency varies little between sensors for a given freestream unit Reynolds number. Turbulent intermittency begins to increase at a freestream unit Reynolds number 2x10⁶/m greater than the unit Reynolds number corresponding to peak second-mode RMS. peak RMS. High-speed schlieren imaging on the downstream section of the flared cone shows the second-mode disturbance following trends in power which correlate with PCB RMS. Infrared heat transfer results contain the azimuthal heating streak pattern observed for the flared cone in prior research, but the hot-cold-hot streak pattern is not seen due to limited model length. Streak heating occurs downstream of second-mode peak RMS over the freestream unit Reynolds number range of 6.4x10⁶/m to 10.4x10⁶/m. The heat transfer of streaks is found to vary significantly from streak to streak, while mean streak heating variation with freestream unit Reynolds number is small.</p><p dir="ltr">PCB results of the cone-cylinder-flare show intermittent turbulence at a freestream unit Reynolds number of 16.0x10⁶/m. Examination of shear-layer and second-mode instabilities show significant increases in RMS moving downstream along the flare and with increasing freestream unit Reynolds number. High-speed schlieren imaging of the shear-layer reattachment region on the flare show the presence of the shear-layer and second-mode instabilities when the model is configured with a sharp nose tip. The instabilities are not present with a blunt 5 mm radius nose tip. Heat transfer is observed to increase along the downstream portion of the flare. The sharp nose tip configuration has higher heat transfer rates than the 5 mm radius nose tip configuration.</p>