About the project
The extreme temperature environment around a hypersonic vehicle can presently not be simulated accurately. This project will close this gap by coupling a non-equilibrium, real-gas shock-capturing fluid solver in our AMROC/VTF framework to a general-purpose solver for solid heat conduction and surface radiation. Verification and validation cases will be studied.
BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 Adaptive Mesh Refinement Object-oriented C++ (AMROC) software infrastructure provides a validated dynamically adaptive strand mesh hypersonic solver for high-temperature gas dynamics. AMROC also permits coupling to structure mechanics solvers through our open-source Virtual Test Facility (VTF) routines. Here, we will tightly couple AMROC to the general-purpose thermal solver EDF Syrthes, combining accurate aerothermodynamic flow simulation with complex multi-material heat conduction and surface radiation modelling. This multi-physics software will enable trustworthy predictions of all heat contributions in and out of the vehicle and allow virtual testing of detailed internal solid structures under realistic hypersonic aerothermodynamic loads.
This project will be carried out under the UK Hypersonics Doctoral Network, which has been supported by the Ministry of Defence and EPSRC for building the necessary expertise to develop next-generation hypersonic vehicles. You are expected to attend cohorting and training activities in the UK Hypersonics Doctoral Network, led by the University of Oxford and Imperial College.
