Paper discusses Advanced Aircraft configurational approaches, across the speed range, which are either enabled, or greatly enhanced, by clever Flow Control. Configurations considered include Channel Wings with circulation control for VTOL [but non-hovering] operation with high cruise speed, strut-braced CTOL transports with wing-tip engines and extensive [ÒnaturalÓ] laminar flow control, a midw...

Numerical simulations are performed to investigate the interaction of acoustic waves with an array of equally-spaced two-dimensional micro-cavities on an otherwise flat plate without external boundary-layer flow. This acoustic scattering problem is important in the design of ultrasonic absorptive coatings (UAC) for hypersonic laminar flow control. The reflection coefficient, characterizing the ...

The direct simulation Monte Carlo method (DSMC) has evolved over 50 years into a powerful numerical technique for the computation of thermochemcial nonequilibrium gas flows. In this context, nonequilibrium means that velocity and internal energy distribution functions are not in equilibrium forms due to a low number of intermolecular collisions within a fluid element. In hypersonic flow, nonequ...

In the present work, the Roe, the Steger and Warming, the Van Leer, the Harten, the Frink, Parikh and Pirzadeh, the Liou and Steffen Jr. and the Radespiel and Kroll schemes are implemented, on a finite volume context and using an upwind and unstructured spatial discretization, to solve the Euler equations in the three-dimensional space. The Roe, the Harten, and the Frink, Parikh and Pirzadeh sc...

Numerical simulations of axisymmetric flows over reentry configurations at hypersonic conditions using a Navier-Stokes solver are presented. The Navier-Stokes equations are modified using Park’s two-temperature model to account for thermochemical nonequilibrium and weak ionization effects. The finite-volume method is used to solve the set of differential equations. The code has the capability t...