02.4 - Applied Aerodynamics
NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON AERODYNAMICS OF A HIGH-SPEED PASSENGER VEHICLE WITHIN THE HEXAFLY-INT PROJECT
J. Steelant¹, V. Villace¹, M. Marini², G. Pezzella², B. Reimann, DLR, Germany; S.L. Chernyshev³, A.A. Gubanov³, V.A. Talyzin³, N.V. Voevodenko³, N.V. Kukshinov*, A.N. Prokhorov*, A.J. Neelyº, C. Kennellº, D. Verstraete, University of Sydney, Australia; D. Buttsworth, Univ. of Southern Queensland, Australia; ¹ESA-ESTEC, Netherlands ;²CIRA, Italy ;³TsAGI, Russia ;*CIAM, Russia ;ºUniv. of New South Wales, Australia
The overall aim of the EC-funded HEXAFLY-INT international project (partners from Europe, Russian Federation and Australia) is to design, manufacture and test in flight a high speed vehicle, based on the configuration developed in previous European Community (EC) co-funded projects ATLLAS I & II, LAPCAT I & II, and HEXAFLY. Under HEXAFLY-INT the scramjet propulsion system will not be further developed by EC partners but only by the Russian partners. As a consequence the flight experiment carried out by the European partners is focused on a self-controlled glider configuration with several breakthrough technologies on-board. The flight test is critical both to demonstrate the aerodynamic efficiency of the design and to collect valuable aerodynamic and aero-structural flight data to validate the methods and technologies used to design the hypersonic vehicle.