A plan and some preliminary analysis for the accurate simulation of pressure distributions on the afterbody/nozzle portions of a hypersonic scramjet vehicle are described. The objectives fulfilled were to establish the standards of similitude for a hydrogen/air scramjet exhaust interacting with a vehicle afterbody, determine an experimental technique for validation of the procedures that will be used in conventional wind tunnel facilities, suggest a program of experiments for proof of the concept, and explore any unresolved problems in the proposed simulation procedures. It is shown that true enthalpy, Reynolds number, and nearly exact chemistry can be provided in the exhaust flow for the flight regime from Mach 4 to 10 by a detonation tube simulation. A detailed discussion of the required similarity parameters leads to the conclusion that substitute gases can be used as the simulated exhaust gas in a wind tunnel to achieve the correct interaction forces and moments. (Author)


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    Title :

    Simulation of Hypersonic Scramjet Exhaust


    Contributors:
    R. A. Oman (author) / K. M. Foreman (author) / J. Leng (author) / H. B. Hopkins (author)

    Publication date :

    1975


    Size :

    72 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English