Abstract

Development of boundary layer trip for capsule shaped reentry vehicles under high-enthalpy hypersonic condition was developed in the free-piston shock tunnel HIEST. Wind tunnel test campaign with an 6% scaled Apollo CM model was conducted with stagnation pressure of 30MPa to 60Mpa and with stagnation enthalpy from 3.5MJ/kg to 22MJ/kg. Reynolds number based on model diameter was varied from 0.2 to 1.3 million. To measure heat flux around the model, eighty-four miniature co-axial thermocouples were instrumented on the heat shield surface of the model. Angle-of-attack of the model was fixed to 28degree. A pizza-box configuration boundary layer trip was mounted on the heat shield surface of the model, which trip height k were 0.3mm, 0.6mm and 0.8mm. With k=0.6mm height trip, boundary layer became fully turbulent less than H0=10MJ/kg. However, boundary layer was still laminar over H0=15MJ/kg even with k=0.8mm trip.

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