The complexity of the current launch platforms makes their maintenance and operation very costly. In order to successfully design the next generation platforms, it is necessary to understand the complex, multi-disciplinary environments that exists during a launch sequence. The proposed research and… More

The main objective of this research effort is to develop a higher order unsteady turbulent flow solver based on the FDV method, and to exploit its attributes of spanning the whole Mach number range.The well known advantages of the implicit FEM will be inherited along with robust boundary conditions… More

We propose the development of a high fidelity computational approach for unsteady calculations of strongly separated non-equilibrium high-enthalpy hypersonic flows. The goal is to integrate the now proven partially-averaged Navier-Stokes (PANS) method for unsteady flow simulations with the most… More