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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (12): 2192-2201.

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An Improved SST Turbulence Model for Hypersonic Flows

LIU Jingyuan   

  1. Aircraft Engineering College, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, China
  • Received:2012-05-22 Revised:2012-08-14 Online:2012-12-25 Published:2012-12-24
  • Supported by:

    National Natural Science Foundation of China (11102079)|Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (20111456005)

Abstract:

An improved shear stress transport (SST) turbulence model is proposed for hypersonic flows in this study which allows for corrected coefficients. A numerical scheme is established by making use of the improved total variation diminishing (TVD) scheme and by applying an implicit scheme to the negative source terms of the turbulence model. Hypersonic flat-plate boundary-layer flows and hypersonic compression ramp flows marked with separation, reattachment and shock/boundary layer interactions are then computed. A comparison between the computational results, the experimental results and the semi-empirical formulations shows that the ratio of Reynolds shear stress and turbulent kinetic energy is not a constant for hypersonic flows. For flows with adverse pressure gradients, shock-wave/turbulent-boundary interaction and separation, calculation results of wall pressures, friction coefficients and wall heat transfer rate distributions using the improved model and established scheme agree better with the experimental results than those using the original SST model.

Key words: turbulence model, numerical simulation, hypersonic, shock wave, boundary layer, heat flux

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