Shock tunnel high-speed photography and CFD calculations on spike-tipped bodies

Julio Srulijes; Patrick Gnemmi; Freidrich Seiler; Kay Runne

doi:10.1117/12.516788

1 August 2003 Shock tunnel high-speed photography and CFD calculations on spike-tipped bodies

Julio Srulijes, Patrick Gnemmi, Freidrich Seiler, Kay Runne

Proceedings Volume 4948, 25th International Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.516788
Event: 25th international Congress on High-Speed photography and Photonics, 2002, Beaune, France

Abstract

A high speed differential interferometry based photography system was used to visualize the flow around a missile equipped with a forward directed spike mounted at the missile's nose. Pressure and temperature on the hemispherical surface of the nose can be substantially reduced by a forward facing spike. Both experiments and computations were carried out to study the flowfield around three-dimensional blunt bodies operated with a spike for a large range of angles of attack at a Mach number of 4.6. A blunt body, a classical disc-tipped spike, a sphere-tipped spike and a biconical-tipped spike have been studied. The experiments involved high-pressure shock tunnel investigations using the shock tube facility of ISL. The differential interferometry techniqe (DI) was used to visualize the flowfield around the different missile spike geometries. A series of eight flow pictures was obtained with the use of a multi-spark light source and a drum camera with rotating film. Steady-state 3D Navier-Stokes computations were carried out to predict the flow field around the spike-tipped missile. DI flow pictures were used to verify the numerical results of the computational calculations. Thus, reliable theoretical results are now available which point out the advantages/disadvantages of the spike geometries under investigation in comparison with the blunt body, especially with regard to drag reduction.

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Julio Srulijes, Patrick Gnemmi, Freidrich Seiler, and Kay Runne "Shock tunnel high-speed photography and CFD calculations on spike-tipped bodies", Proc. SPIE 4948, 25th International Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics, (1 August 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.516788

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