Alleviation of SWBLI over the Payload of a Launch Vehicle by Change of Nose Shape

B Nath, N Srinivasan, KN Murugan, T Arunkumar… - Aerospace Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wind tunnel tests on a typical heavy-lift launch vehicle configuration featuring a core vehicle
flanked by two strap-on boosters showed very high levels of unsteady pressures over the …

Numerical simulation of flow field over slender bodies at transonic Mach number and low angle of attacks

J Makhija, DSK Reddy - IOP Conference Series: Materials …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The transonic flow field over a launch vehicle is complicated due to presence of a normal
shockwave on the heat shield. To predict the aerodynamic loads, the shockwave position …

Computation of three-dimensional transonic flow fields over a three-body launch vehicle configuration for low angle of attack conditions

DSK Reddy, P Shah - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The present work aims at the prediction of shock wave position on the heat shield region of a
three body launch vehicle in transonic region. The launch vehicle consists of a cylindrical …