Numerical Simulation of Hypersonic transition to turbulence within the NSMB CFD solver

Vos¹, A. Marouf ² and Y. Hoarau ² 1 CFS Engineering,

¹ EPFL Innovation Park, Batiment A, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

²Université de Strasbourg, Icube laboratory, Mechanical Department, 67000 Strasbourg, France

 

The Navier Stokes Multi Block (NSMB [1]) solver is developed in a consortium of different companies and universities in Switzerland, France and Germany. From the start the solver was designed to be used for hypersonic flow simulations, and it has been used in a large variety of ESA and EU funded space projects, among them the IXV (including the postflight analysis) and the RETALT (Re-usable Launchers) projects.

To facilitate the mesh generation for complex geometries NSMB employs the chimera method was well as the patch grid method. For hypersonic flows a bow shock adaption procedure is available. The ALE (Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian) approach is available for moving grids as well as for moving bodies simulations. A large variety of numerical schemes as well as turbulence models are available in the solver.

In this work the NSMB solver is used to simulate two test-case of flow with transition to turbulence :

1. The sphere at Mach 4.5 and 10 with wall heat flux measurements performed by Mielke [2] at ISL
2. The hypersonic axisymmetrical compression ramp flow of Lugrin & al [3,4]

In both cases an automatic mesh adaptation is used to refine the grid in the shock areas. The grid before refinement are presented on the figure 1.

The numerical simulation is based on the use of two turbulence models, namely the Spalart-Almaras QCR 2020 [5] and the Menter k-ω SST [6], combined with four transition models :

1. The γ-Re_θ two equation model of Langtry and Menter [7]
2. The γ one equation model of Langtry and Menter & al [8]
3. The algebraic model of Cakmakcioglu & al [9]
4. The algebraic model of Menter & al [10]

 

 

 

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