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Alauzet, F.; Loseille, A.

High-order sonic boom modeling based on adaptive methods. (English) Zbl 1253.76052

J. Comput. Phys. 229, No. 3, 561-593 (2010).
Summary: This paper presents an accurate approach to simulate the sonic boom of supersonic aircrafts. The near-field flow is modeled by the conservative Euler equations and is solved using a vertex-centered finite volume approach on adapted unstructured tetrahedral meshes. A metric-based anisotropic mesh adaptation is considered to control the interpolation error in \(L^p\) norm. Then, from the CFD solution, the pressure distribution under the aircraft is extracted and used to set up the initial conditions of the propagation algorithm in the far-field. The pressure distribution is propagated down to the ground in order to obtain the sonic boom signature using a ray tracing algorithm based upon the Thomas waveform parameter method. In this study, a sonic boom sensitivity analysis is carried out on several aircraft designs (low-drag and low-boom shapes).

Cited in 24 Documents

MSC:

76J20 Supersonic flows
76M12 Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

Keywords:

sonic boom; Euler equations; finite volume; anisotropic mesh adaptation; waveform parameter method

Software:

USM3D
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