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Control of plume interference effects on axisymmetric afterbodies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 February 2016
Abstract
Plume interference effects on the axisymmetric flowfields around powered missiles are investigated using computational techniques. The study is mainly to understand the physics of the plume-induced shock and separation particularly at high plume to exit pressure ratios with and without shock-turbulent boundary layer control methods. Mass-averaged Navier-Stokes equations with the RNG k-ε turbulence model are solved using a fully implicit finite volume scheme and time-marching algorithm. The shock position and extent of separation was found to be dependent on the freestream Mach number and plume pressure ratio. Rounding the tail or a groove on the surface near the tail moved the shockwave downstream of the tail fin which should enhance the control of the missile.
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