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AERODYNAMIC DESIGN AND ANALYSIS

ELORET researchers have worked and published extensively, in direct support of several NASA programs, in the areas of Aerodynamic and Aero-thermodynamic Design and Analysis. Expertise and help are available in the following:

Complete 3D Analysis of Flow around Rockets and Missiles

• analysis of boundary layers and separated flows in adverse pressure gradients
• rarefied flows, DSMC simulations
• two-phase and oscillating flows
• shear layer mixing analysis

Rocket Engine Design and Analysis

• performance analysis
• nozzle design
• jet/plume interaction and hard-body effects
• CFD analysis
• experimental testing techniques
• base-heating including radiative heating predictions during descent
• alternate propulsion concepts

Analysis and Design of Supersonic and Hypersonic Configurations

• CFD simulations for NASP configurations
• high-speed inlets and nozzles
• complex nozzle configurations for the High Speed Civil Transport program

Hypersonic Engine Design

• air-breathing, conventional scramjet, and oblique detonation wave engines
• fuel injection and gas mixing systems
• thrust augmentors

Aerobrake Vehicles

Detonations in Gases and High Explosives

Facilities/Experiment Design and Analysis

• wind tunnels
• gas optics
• light gas guns
• ram accelerators
• shock tubes and tunnels, expansion tubes
• arc jets