Heat Flux on a Hypersonic Cone with a Highly Swept Fin

What is it about?

A highly-swept fin on a cone at Mach 6 induces a complex flow field which includes shock/boundary-layer interactions and multiple vortices. A detailed study of this flow field for several different geometric configurations is given here. Quantitative comparisons between simulation and experimental data are given. The sensitivity of the flow field to the fin-cone junction and fin-truncation are also demonstrated.

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