Browsing Aerospace Engineering (AE) by Title
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Experimental Investigation Of Hypersonic Boundary Layer Modifications Due To Heat Addition And Enthalpy Variation Over A Cone Cylinder Configuration
(2010-12-01)Despite years of research in high speed boundary layer flow, there is still a need for insightful experiments to realize key features of the flow like boundary layer response to different conditions and related transition ... -
Experimental Investigation Of The Effect Of Nose Cavity On The Aerothermodynamics Of The Missile Shaped Bodies Flying At Hypersonic Mach Numbers
(2010-06-01)Hypersonic vehicles are exposed to severe heating loads during their flight in the atmosphere. In order to minimize the heating problem, a variety of cooling techniques are presently available for hypersonic blunt bodies. ... -
An Experimental Investigation of Transitional and Turbulent Channel Flow
This thesis is a comprehensive experimental investigation of transitional and turbulent channel flow in the Reynolds number range of Reτ = 55 − 1559. Towards this objective, a new channel flow facility was designed and ... -
Experimental Investigation on Hypersonic Flowfield Around Spiked Axisymmetric Bodies
Shock-shock interactions appearing around hypersonic vehicles are generally complex and often lead to high values of localized pressures and temperatures. This increase in temperature is associated with exceedingly high ... -
Experimental Investigations Of Aerothermodynamics Of A Scramjet Engine Configuration
(2011-04-06)The recent resurgence in hypersonics is centered around the development of SCRAMJET engine technology to power future hypersonic vehicles. Successful flight trials by Australian and American scientists have created interest ... -
Experimental Investigations of Leading Edge Bluntness in Shock Boundary Layer Interactions at Hypersonic Speeds
(2018-07-20)Shock Boundary Layer Interactions (SBLIs) and shock-shock interactions are some of the most fundamental problems in high speed aerodynamics. These interactions are of particular importance in scramjet intakes at hypersonic ... -
Experimental Investigations Of Surface Interactions Of Shock Heated Gases On High Temperature Materials Using High Enthalpy Shock Tubes
(2009-05-12)The re-entry space vehicles encounter high temperatures when they enter the earth atmosphere and the high temperature air in the shock layer around the body undergoes partial dissociation. Also, the gas molecules injected ... -
Experimental Investigations on Hypersonic Waverider
(2018-02-28)In the flying field of space transportation domain, the increased efforts involving design and development of hypersonic flight for space missions is on toe to provide the optimum aerothermodynamic design data to satisfy ... -
Experimental Investigations on Ramp-induced Large Separation Bubble in a Hypersonic Flow
Shockwave Boundary Layer Interactions (SBLIs) are ubiquitous in supersonic/ hypersonic flows and often lead to the separation of the boundary layer. These separations can be broadly classified into small and large ... -
Experimental Investigations on Supersonic Ejectors
(2018-04-13)A supersonic ejector is used to pump a secondary gas using a supersonic primary gas flow by augmentation of momentum and energy in a variable area duct. The internal compressible flow through an ejector has many complex ... -
Experimental Measurement Of Flame Response To Acoustic Oscillations
(2014-06-20)Acoustic instabilities in a combustion chamber arise due to the coupling of acoustic pressure with in-phase heat-release, and are characterized by large amplitude oscillations of one or more natural modes of combustor. ... -
Experimental Studies on Co-current downdraft Biomass Gasifier
The main theme of the work carried out and reported in this thesis is to understand the processes involved in a co-current downdraft biomass gasification reactor and to analyse the data obtained with an attempt to provide ... -
Experimental Studies on Gaseous Mixing in a Low Area Ratio Rectangular Supersonic Confined Jet
When a supersonic jet passes through a confined passage, it is called as supersonic confined jet. They are encountered in many aerospace applications such as supersonic ejectors, supersonic mixers/purgers, and thrust ... -
Experimental Studies on Shock-Shock Interactions in Hypersonic Shock Tunnels
(2017-12-16)Shock-shock interactions are among the most basic gas-dynamic problem, and are almost unavoidable in any high speed light, where shock waves generating from different sources crosses each other paths. These interactions ... -
Experimental Studies on the Effect of an Upstream Periodic Wake on a Turbulent Separation Bubble
(2018-06-26)The object of the present work is to experimentally study the case of a turbulent boundary layer subjected to an Adverse Pressure Gradient (APG) with separation and reattachment. The effect of unsteadiness on turbulent ... -
Experimental Study Of Large Angle Blunt Cone With Telescopic Aerospike Flying At Hypersonic Mach Numbers
(2011-04-06)The emerging and competitive environment in the space technology requires the improvements in the capability of aerodynamic vehicles. This leads to the analysis in drag reduction of the vehicle along with the minimized ... -
Experimental Study Of Plasma Actuator Characteristics And Optimization Of Configuration
(2013-06-26)Plasma actuators are devices which function by creating a discharge in air at atmospheric conditions. These devices have been demonstrated to effectively delay flow separation and enhance the lift- drag characteristics of ... -
Experimental Study On The Impact Of Water Drops On Groove-Textured Surfaces
(2014-09-08)The interaction of a liquid drop with a solid surface is being actively studied to understand practically encountered scenarios such as the impact of fuel spray droplets onto the walls of engine combustion chamber, the ... -
Experiments on the Late Stages of Boundary Layer Transition
(2018-03-19)In canonical boundary layer transition, a uniform laminar flow perturbed by 2-d T-S waves develops downstream into 3-d waves, which eventually break down with turbulent spots appearing. Previous experimental studies have ...