An unmanned winged vehicle for space transportation called H-II Orbiting Plane (HOPE) is being studied by the National Space Development Agency of JAPAN (NASDA). In the paper, hypersonic computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses have been performed for the 62A, 62B, and 62C HOPE configurations in order to investigate aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic characteristics. The research has been carried out jointly by the National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL) and NASDA. Numerical computations were carried out at M(infinity) = 7.0 and Reynolds number of 2.5 x 10 to the sixth power at angles of attack from 0 to 40 deg with and without yaw angles. Numerical results were compared with experimental data obtained from the hypersonic wind tunnel at NAL.


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    Title :

    Numerical Simulation of Hypersonic Viscous Flow for the Design of H-II Orbiting Plane (HOPE)


    Contributors:
    Y. Yamamoto (author) / T. Akimoto (author)

    Publication date :

    1989


    Size :

    101 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English