Hypersonic waverider design from given shock waves

Abstract

An attempt is made to generate waverider flows from given shock wave geometries using two approaches. In the first approach, axisymmetric flows are used to construct more general flows based on the concept of osculating cones. Conical waverider design can thus be extended to yield results also for shocks forming a slope surface. The second approach involves solving the ill-posed problem of prescribing a shock wave and finding the flow field behind it. A new numerical marching technique with some features of characteristic cross marching is used to solve the Euler equation. The code selection and some test cases are discussed.