Defence & Aerospace
Aerodynamic heating, thermal protection and plume interaction on high-speed vehicles.
Here analysis is not a verification activity running alongside design — it is the design. Most of the flight envelope cannot be tested on the ground, so the thermal environment has to be defined by computation.
What we work on
- Aerodynamic heating and thermal environment definition during ascent
- Thermal protection system (TPS) design and ablation modelling
- Plume interaction, plume impingement and vehicle base heating
- Cryogenic propellant tanks, boil-off and icing risk
- Full-vehicle transient analysis across the whole mission profile
- Intake and nozzle internal flow
What we are careful about
In this field the assumptions decide the result. Which heating model was chosen, over what Mach range, and on what grounds, is written down. "That is what the calculation gave" is not an explanation; why that model was the right one is.
Technical notes for this field
- High-speed heat loads: why the stagnation point is critical
- What does the Mach 0.3 rule actually say?
- Separation and reattachment: why is prediction so hard?
- RANS, URANS, DES, LES: which one, when?
- Which turbulence model should you choose?
- When can radiation not be neglected?
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