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Validation Of Cfd Simulations For Hypersonic Flow Over A Yawed Cone, Julian Cecil
Validation Of Cfd Simulations For Hypersonic Flow Over A Yawed Cone, Julian Cecil
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
This study aims to numerically simulate the wind tunnel results for hypersonic flow over a circular cone of semi-apex angle of 10 degrees yawed from 0° to 20° using the commercial computational fluid dynamics software ANSYS Fluent. The ANSYS workbench is used to create the 10° semi-apex circular cone with a shock aligned structured mesh of 3.05 million cells surrounding the cone. Simulation boundary conditions for pressure and temperature in the far field correspond to Tracy’s wind tunnel experiment at Cal Tech. The six simulations cases are conducted for yaw angles of 0, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24 degrees. …