ONERA JOINS HyFAR-ARA

On May 15th 2024, the administration board of HyFAR-ARA officially validated ONERA as new member of the association. ONERA is the 9th organization to join the association.   ONERA (Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales)…

SC-X01 capsule on Ariane 6

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ArianeGroup’s SC-X01 atmospheric re-entry demonstrator will be embarked on the maiden flight FM1 of ARIANE 6 (currently scheduled for mid-2024 [1]).   The purpose of the SC-X01 capsule is to prepare a commercial service called "SpaceCase",…

FAR2025 : save the date

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 ESA will organize in conjunction with HyFAR-ARA the 3rd International Conference on Flight Vehicles, Aerothermodynamics and Re-entry  (FAR 2025) from May 18th 2025 to May 22nd 2025. The conference will take place in Palais des Congrès of…

Reentry vehicle ablation

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Maxime Stuck thesis « Ablation d’un matériau de protection thermique en régime turbulent » (« Thermal protection material ablation in turbulent regime ») has been defended on December 12th 2023 (ISAE-Université de Toulouse). The thesis…
TRANSITION 2023 (4th-6th October 2023 - Bordeaux France) : group photo

A successful symposium

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The second edition[1] of the European Symposium on laminar/turbulent Transition in Hypersonic Regime (TRANSITION 2023) has been organized by HyFAR-ARA (www.hyfar-ara.org) at Cap Sciences (Bordeaux, France) from October 4th to  6th 2023. During…

THE CNES JOINS HyFAR-ARA

On May 5th 2023, the administration board of HyFAR-ARA officially validated CNES as new member of the association. The French space agency (CNES, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) is a public administration with industrial and commercial…

1-vehicle design criteria

Establishing Vehicle Design Criteria to Postpone Transition Onset along Trajectories of Generic Flight Vehicles Frederik Jacobs 1*, Johan Steelant 2 * Corresponding author 1 Young Graduate Trainee, ESA/ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 2201AZ Noordwijk,…

2-WALL BLOWING AND HEATING

Adjoint-based linear sensitivity of a hypersonic boundary layer to steady wall blowing or heating Arthur POULAIN¹, Denis SIPP¹*, Cédric CONTENT¹, Georgios RIGAS², Eric GARNIER¹ ¹ DAAA, ONERA, Université Paris Saclay, F-92190 Meudon,…
Streamwise Stanton number on conic sample in the High Enthalpy Shock Tunnel Göttingen experiment along the 0-degree meridian

3-breakdown of second modes

Fundamental breakdown of second modes in the High Enthalpy Shock Tunnel Göttingen   Divek SURUJHLAL 1 *, Alexander WAGNER 2 * Corresponding author 1German Aerospace Center (DLR) Göttingen, Department of Spacecraft surujhlal@dlr.de…
Figure 1: Schematic of the R2Ch wind tunnel.

5-cone-cylinder-flare experiment

Experimental investigation of the transition process and boundary layer separation on a hypersonic cone-cylinder-flare geometry Clément Caillaud 2, Mathieu Lugrin ∗,1,  Sébastien Esquieu 2 1DAAA, ONERA, Paris Saclay University, F-92190…