Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) scale-resolving simulations were performed to help assess the Orion launch abort system’s vibro-acoustic environment in collaboration with the Orion Loads and Dynamics team at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). The primary objectives are to establish best practices and to validate CFD predictions for surface fluctuating pressure spectra with ground, wind tunnel, and flight test data. Excellent agreement is obtained between CFD predictions by the Cartesian adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) module of the Launch, Ascent, and Vehicle Aerodynamics (LAVA) solver and measurements from a ground test representative of the start of a pad abort scenario, and with measurements from a wind tunnel test case corresponding to a transonic, high total angle of attack ascent abort scenario. A simplified (static and at rest) simulation of a pad abort flight test shows good agreement with the flight data, whereas a more costly simulation where the vehicle is accelerating relative to the ground from rest to Mach 0.4 shows consistent over-prediction of the spectra. Simulation results for a supersonic ascent abort flight test are in reasonable agreement with the measurements, but show larger excursions in regions where non-linear interactions between the plume turbulence, shocks, and turbulent boundary layer are strongest – likely due to CFD modeling assumptions, the effect of which are discussed. Overall, the CFD results demonstrate that scale-resolving simulation methodologies like the one presented can help characterize full-scale launch abort vehicle near-field noise and can complement wind tunnel, ground and flight tests by providing trends and reducing uncertainty for scenarios that cannot or are not planned to be tested.


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    Title :

    Predicting Orion Launch Abort Acoustics


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    Conference:

    11th International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD11) ; 2022 ; Maui, HI, US


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    Conference paper


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    No indication


    Language :

    English




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