NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON AERODYNAMICS OF A HIGH-SPEED PASSENGER VEHICLE WITHIN THE HEXAFLY-INT PROJECT

摘要

Hypersonic passenger transport is intrinsicallylinked to long-haul intercontinental flights. Itsdevelopment and deployment will demand aninternational approach. The internationallyfunded HEXAFLY-INT project is a first step intothis direction. Key elements for civil high-speedtransportation are jointly developed towards anexperimental flight. The present paper describesthe various numerical and experimentalinvestigations carried out so far by the differentinternational partners.