Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics Downloads

From this page you can download files about (or produced during) our activities: papers, reports, software, datasets and other stuff. If you have any problem in getting the files, please let us know.

• Papers & Reports
• Software
• Experimental Data

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Papers & Reports

Here are some papers about our activities which you may find interesting (if you need a viewer for these files, you can find it here) :

1. Scortecci F., Paganucci F., Biagioni L., "Development of a Pulsed Arc Heater for a Hypersonic High Enthalpy Wind Tunnel", AIAA 97-3016, 33rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 6-9 1997, Seattle WA, USA.Acrobat PDF file (187 kb).

2. Scortecci F., Paganucci F., d'Agostino L., Andrenucci M., "A New Hypersonic High Enthalpy Wind Tunnel", AIAA 97-3017, 33rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 6-9 1997, Seattle WA, USA. Acrobat PDF file (1435 kb).

3. Scortecci F., Paganucci F., Biagioni L., Borrelli S., Marini M., "Disegno dell'ugello per una galleria ipersonica ad alta entalpia", XIV Congresso Nazionale AIDAA, October 1997, Napoli, Italy. In Italian. Acrobat PDF file (356 kb).

4. Biagioni L., Scortecci F., Paganucci F., d'Agostino L., Andrenucci M., "Performance of Centrospazio Hypersonic High Enthalpy Wind Tunnel", AIAA 98-1508, 8th AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference, April 27-30 1998, Norfolk VA, USA.Acrobat PDF file (295 kb).

5. Scortecci F., Paganucci F., d'Agostino L., "Experimental Investigation of Shock-Wave/Boundary-Layer Interactions Over an Artificially Heated Model in Hypersonic Flow", AIAA 98-1571, 8th AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference, April 27-30 1998, Norfolk VA, USA. Acrobat PDF file (364 kb).

6. Biagioni L., Scortecci F., Paganucci F., Nill L.D., "Experimental Characterization for Hypersonic Testing", AIAA 98-3131, 34th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 13-15 1998, Cleveland OH, USA. Acrobat PDF file (166 kb).

7. Biagioni L., Scortecci F., Paganucci F., Banetta S., d'Agostino L., "Two Years of Arc-Tunnel Experience at Centrospazio", 3rd European Symposium on Aerothermodynamics for Space Vehicles, November 24-26 1998, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Acrobat PDF file (461 kb).

8. Biagioni L., d'Agostino L., "A Pressure Based Method for Turbulence Measurement in Hypersonic Flows", 18th IEEE International Congress on Instrumentation in Aerospace Simulation Facilities, June 14-17 1999, Toulouse, France. Acrobat PDF file (325 kb).

9. Biagioni L., d'Agostino L., "Measurement of Energy Spectra in Weakly Compressible Turbulence", AIAA 99-3516, 30th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, June 28-July 1 1999, Norfolk VA, USA. Acrobat PDF file (133 kb).

10. Biagioni L., Scortecci F., Paganucci F., "Development of Pulsed Arc Heater for Small Hypersonic High-Enthalpy Wind Tunnel", J. Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol.36, No.5, September-October 1999, pp. 704-710. Acrobat PDF file (185 kb).

Software

These are a few codes which you may find useful, please let us know is you actually use them and acknowledge their origin in any resulting publication.

• HEATMOD v1.3, an unsteady, lumped parameter/control volume code to simulate HEAT dynamical behavior during the gas/arc pulse. The code (implemented as a Simulink 2 ^tm model) is pretty accurate and may be used as a block library for simulating other gasdynamic networks. No manual is available, but the underlying physics are explained in two papers (AIAA 97-3016, AIAA 98-1508) and the code is rather self-explanatory. Available for download: code mdl-file (ZIP file, 13 kb).

• MOCpluh v1.1, a homoentropic Method-Of-Characteristic code for gasdynamic plume computation (implemented as a set of Matlab 4.2 ^tm m-files). Sorry, it does not handle shocks! Available for download: code m-files (ZIP file, 9 kb), manual and description (Acrobat PDF file, 103 kb).

Mach 6 underexpanded plume computed using MOCpluh.

• G-Wavelet and M-Wavelet, two simple Matlab 5.1 ^tm m-files for computing Gaussian and Morlet continuous wavelet transforms. Algorithms courtesy of Jacques Lewalle who also prepared a nice tutorial on using wavelets in the analysis of experimental data signals. Available for download: code m-files (ZIP file, 4 kb).

• Our colleagues at the Syracuse University Center for Hypersonics use a LICH (Light Isentropic Compression Heated) tunnel for their experiments. LICHpred is a simple prediction program implemented as a set of Matlab^tm m-files. Available for download: code m-files (ZIP file, 4 kb).

Experimental Data

If you're more interested in the "real stuff", you will (sometimes in the near future) be able to download some experimental datasets. Please let us know if you use them and acknowledge their origin in any resulting publication.

• Hypersonic decaying turbulence in air: streamwise turbulent fluctuation (16384 samples data chunks).

• Hypersonic nozzle boundary layer: streamwise turbulent fluctuation (16384 samples data chunks).

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Last modified: January 16, 1999