Impact of turbulence modelling on external supersonic flow field simulations in rocket aerodynamics

This paper contains a three-dimensional study on the influence of different turbulence models for external supersonic flow field simulations, aiming at reaching the best accuracy in rocket aerodynamics. A well-studied test case -a slender body- has been used for the validation process, which involve...

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Published inInternational journal of computational fluid dynamics Vol. 27; no. 8-10; pp. 332 - 341
Main Authors López, Deibi, Domínguez, Diego, Gonzalo, Jesús
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Taylor & Francis 01.12.2013
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Aerodynamics
CFD validation
Computational fluid dynamics
Computer simulation
Fluid dynamics
Mathematical models
Navier-Stokes equations
numerical schemes
RANS equations
Rockets
Simulation
Supersonic aircraft
Supersonic flow
Turbulence models
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Summary:This paper contains a three-dimensional study on the influence of different turbulence models for external supersonic flow field simulations, aiming at reaching the best accuracy in rocket aerodynamics. A well-studied test case -a slender body- has been used for the validation process, which involves the major turbulence models available. The SST k-ω model has been selected as the most suitable one for this kind of flows. Good agreements between numerical, theoretical and experimental results are obtained, which are used to set up some guidelines regarding the configuration of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) supersonic models for these flight regimes.
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ISSN:1061-8562
1029-0257
DOI:10.1080/10618562.2013.867951