Heat transfer reduction using combination of spike and counterflow jet on blunt body at high Mach number flow

Abstract

Heat transfer reduction around blunt bodies is one of the important issues in the field of high speed aerodynamics. Using of spikes and counterflow jets each of them separately for reducing of drag force and heat transfer is well known. The present work is description of flow field around a hemispherical nose cylinder with a combination of spike and counterflow jet at free stream of Mach number of 6. The air gas was injected through the nozzle at the nose of the hemispherical model at sonic speed. In this numerical analysis, axisymmetric Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations was solved by k-ω (SST) turbulence model. The grid study was done and the results are validated with experimental results for spiked body without jet condition. Then the results presented for different lengths of spike and different pressures of counterflow jets. The results show a significant reduction in the peak heat transfer about 60%–78% for different models compared to the spherical cylinder model without any jet and spike. Furthermore, also our results indicate that the heat transfer reduction is increased even more with increasing of the length of the spike.