Fluid Mechanics and Flight Mechanics

Design and analysis of hypersonic vehicle airfoil/wing at wide-range Mach numbers

  • SUN Xiangcheng ,
  • HAN Zhonghua ,
  • LIU Fei ,
  • SONG Ke ,
  • SONG Wenping
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  • National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Aerodynamic Design and Research, School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China

Received date: 2017-09-11

  Revised date: 2018-01-24

  Online published: 2018-01-24

Supported by

National Natural Science Foundation of China (11272265); Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (2016ZA53011)

Abstract

The study of wider-range Mach number configuration is of great importance for the development of hypersonic vehicles. This study is aimed at designing a wider-range Mach number airfoil based on Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations and the surrogate-based optimization method based on kriging model. An airfoil with a lower surface of double "S" shape is designed. The aerodynamic characteristics of the designed airfoil are compared with quadrilateral and hexagon airfoils. Results show that the lift-to-drag ratio of the new airfoil is as large as 78.9 in transonic flow, and the lift-drag ratio reaches 5.94 in hypersonic flow. The aerodynamic characteristics of SANGER wing with the new airfoil is compared with that of the wing with quadrilateral and hexagon airfoils. In a word, the new airfoil as well as the wing with the new airfoil can achieve good overall aerodynamic performance at a wider-range Mach numbers, and is supposed to be applied to the design of the wider-range Mach number airfoil/wing for hypersonic vehicle applications.

Cite this article

SUN Xiangcheng , HAN Zhonghua , LIU Fei , SONG Ke , SONG Wenping . Design and analysis of hypersonic vehicle airfoil/wing at wide-range Mach numbers[J]. ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA, 2018 , 39(6) : 121737 -121737 . DOI: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2018.21737

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