Pre-Flight Ground Testing of the Full-Scale HIFiRE-1 at Fully Duplicated Flight Conditions; Final rept. 15 Feb 2007-14 Feb 2008

摘要

As part of an experimental study to obtain detailed heating and pressure data over the full-scale HIFiRE-1 flight geometry, CUBRC has completed a 30-run matrix of ground tests, sponsored by the AFOSR, to determine the optimal flight hardware and instrumentation configuration necessary to achieve and make measurements of desired flow phenomena during the flight experiment HIFiRE-1 stands for Hypersonic International Flight Research and Experimentation and the flight vehicle consists of a blunt nose, cone cylinder, and flare regions. The primary objective of the HIFiRE-1 flight experiment is to collect high quality flight data to be used for CFD code and ground test facility validation in regions of boundary layer transition as well as regions of separated shock wave/boundary layer interaction at the cylinder/flare junction.