Convective heat-transfer rate distributions over a missile shaped body flying at hypersonic speeds

Saravanan, S and Jagadeesh, G and Reddy, KPJ (2009) Convective heat-transfer rate distributions over a missile shaped body flying at hypersonic speeds. In: Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 33 (4). pp. 782-790.

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Abstract

Experiments are carried out with air as the test gas to obtain the surface convective heating rate on a missile shaped body flying at hypersonic speeds. The effect of fins on the surface heating rates of missile frustum is also investigated. The tests are performed in a hypersonic shock tunnel at stagnation enthalpy of 2 MJ/kg and zero degree angle of attack. The experiments are conducted at flow Mach number of 5.75 and 8 with an effective test time of 1 ms. The measured stagnation-point heat-transfer data compares well with the theoretical value estimated using Fay and Riddell expression. The measured heat-transfer rate with fin configuration is slightly higher than that of model without fin. The normalized values of experimentally measured heat transfer rate and Stanton number compare well with the numerically estimated results. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science
Publisher:	Elsevier Science.
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Keywords:	Hypersonic shock tunnel; Enthalpy; Heat transfer coefficient; Stanton number
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering(Formerly Aeronautical Engineering)
Date Deposited:	05 Mar 2010 07:11
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:56
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/25971

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