Download or read book On the Numerical Simulation of Three-Dimensional Hypersonic Flow written by S. Riedelbauch and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report on the first steps towards the numerical simulation of hypersonic flows. Intentionally, the ideal-gas assumption is used to validate the methods by comparing results with experimentally observed or theoretically obtained data in cold hypersonic flows about simple geometries. The approaches cover the continuum as well as the gas-kinetic flow regime. An implicit finite-difference method with bow-shock fitting is employed to integrate the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations, while the gas-kinetic flow is simulated by approximations to Boltzmann's equation. The Direct-Simulation Monte-Carlo method is preferred to the Molecular-Dynamics approach because of its larger computational efficiency. Results are compared with experimental data for the laminar flow past a blunted cone at M = 10.6 and past a hemisphere at M = 4.15. The decay of Oseen's vortex at Kn = 0.1, and the gas-kinetic flow past a cylinder at M = 5.48 with Kn = 0.1 and 0.3 have been simulated, and results are shown in comparison with theoretical data. As an application to more realistic configurations the three-dimensional laminar flow past the noise of a typical spacecraft and the gas-kinetic flow in the symmetry plane of the flow past the same configuration is being discussed. The next steps will include real-gas modelling. For hot hypersonic flows experimental data are badly needed for comparison purpose.