Integration between Measurements and Particle Simulations for Hypersonic Rarefied Flows
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The hypersonic rarefied wind tunnel has lately been developed at JAXA. The characteristics of hypersonic rarefied flows have been investigated experimentally and numerically in this work. Using a sphere pendulous model, the test flow has been probed by measuring its displacement due to the aerodynamic force. In addition, a spatial variation of total pressure of the test flow has also been measured by using total pressure tubes. The flow field from a conical nozzle to a test section was simulated by computational fluid dynamics/direct simulation Monte Carlo loosely coupled computations, and the flow fields were deduced by integrating experimental and numerical results. Consequently, a 25-mm hypersonic rarefied core flow was obtained using a 45-degree conical nozzle with a Mach number greater than 10 and a Knudsen number greater than 0.1.
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