HYPERSONICS
Research Activities
Advanced High Temperature Materials - new formulations and processes for metals and composite materials
Fuels and Injection Techniques, especially for DMR
Structures lightweight primary structures, reusable tanks for cryogenics
Optimization of High Performance Scramjets
Computational Fluid Dynamic CFD Methods and Algorithms computer simulation
Heat Control Cooling techniques and insulation, regenerative fuels, etc.
Ground and Flight Tests under realistic flight conditions
Design Optimization Methodology
NUMERICAL MODELLING OF HyShot II
Iso-surface of pressure at 180 kPa, coloured by the Mach number;
H2O distribution: on bottom slice
Transversal, 90° H2 injection into the incoming airstream generates very complex flow structures.
Vorticity generated in this way may be understood better by looking at the Crocco-Vazsonyi equation:
Isosurface of H2 at 0.01 mass fraction; color maps OH
Isosurface of H2 at 0.01 mass fraction colored by H2O
Temperature distribution at X=0.028 m ; H2 distribution on bottom slice
Isosurface of H2 at 0.01 mass fraction; color maps Temperature
NUMERICAL MODELLING OF HIFiRE 2
The research focuses on the understanding of the start-unstart nature of the scramjet by simulating cold flow, cold flow with injection and hot flow.
The Numerical simulations were carried out using RANS AND LES codes within the commercially avaible codes to Investigate the effect of different geometries, length, fuel injection angles that could help in understanding how to improve the design of scramjet engines.
The research aims to improve the combustion efficiency by decrease pressure losses.
Understanding of the combustion mechanism and improving chemistry of combustion by implementing new reaction mechanisms.
Aims to better understand the flow behaviour and vorticity nature.
NUMERICAL MODELLING OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST CASE
RAMJET RESEARCH
Scale demonstrator of liquid air-kerosene and/or solid Ramjet engine capable of carrying out tests to verify functionality and calibration of cold and hot mathematical models
COMPUTATIONA FACILITY
We have a sophisticated high tech workstation with the following configuration to support our research activities.
A computer equipped with
Processor: Intel(R) Silver 4210 CPU @2.20GHz 2.20GHz
(48 Processors)
RAM: 128 GB
Other Computers to meet the day to day academic needs
FUTURE PLANS OF INSTALLING TEST FACILITY
The establishment of a test facility that could meet the current research activities in Hypersonics and thereby conducting cutting-edge research in anticipation of future propulsion solutions
PHASE 1 :
Blowdown-type hypersonic wind tunnel for flight tests at Mach 2-5 in the order of 10-30 s (depending on the flight Mach and thrust target)