HALO3D: An All-Mach Approach to Hypersonic Flows Simulation, Part II

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper is Part II of the two-paper series ‘HALO3D: An All-Mach Approach to Hypersonic Flows Simulation’ presenting advances in a monolithic flow simulation software for the design of high-speed aircraft. Part II highlights the methodology behind the continuum regime finite-rate surface chemistry, weak-ionisation, and rarefied regime Direct Simulation Monte Carlo modules. Validation and benchmark simulations of flows over a 2D cylinder, the 3D RAM-C II geometry, and the 3D Lockheed Martin X-33 geometry are provided. Within HALO3D, a Hessian-based multiphysics automatic mesh adaptation methodology yields optimal solutions that ought to provide valuable benchmarks for verifying other hypersonic flow simulation tools. Such mesh optimisation automatically generates a common truly mesh-independent solution across the continuum and rarefied regimes, taking into account various thermo-chemical models. These developments establish HALO3D as a mature, readily extendible software package for hypersonic aircraft analysis.