Applications of Underexpanded Jets in Hypersonic Aerothermodynamic Research
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A method of underexpanded hypersonic viscous jets has been developed to acquire experimental aerodynamic data for wedges and plates in the transitional regime between free-molecular and continuum regimes. The kinetic, viscous, and rotational nonequilibrium quantum processes in the jets of He, Ar, N2, and CO2 under various experimental conditions have been analyzed by asymptotic methods and numerical techniques. Fundamental laws for the characteristics and similarity parameters are revealed. In the case of hypersonic stabilization, the Reynolds number Re0 and temperature factor are the main similarity parameters. This research has discovered those conditions, which allow the significant influence of other parameters (specific heat ratio, viscosity parameter, Mach number). The acquired data could be used effectively for research and prediction of aerodynamic characteristics of hypersonic vehicles during their flights under atmospheric conditions of Earth, Mars, and other planets.
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