Construction of Hybrid HLLCE Scheme with its Application to Hypersonic Aero-heating Evaluation
Aerodynamic heating is a key issue in the research of hypersonic vehicles flying in near-space. It has an important influence on the aerodynamic,thermal environment and safety of the aircraft. Due to the limitation of experimental methods,wind tunnel experiments cannot simulate real flight conditions accurately. CFD is an important tool for studying aerothermodynamics problems. The format dissipativeness and grid are two important factors that affect aerothermodynamics simulation. The smaller the format dissipation,the better the CFD performance,but low dissipation will cause shock instability phenomena. A hybrid HLLCE format which has both the HLLE format stability and the low dissipativity of the HLLC format is constructed. This format exhibits the low dissipation properties of HLLC at a lower Mach number and can overcome shock instability phenomena at high speed. The thickness of the linear bottom layer of the boundary layer is used as the reference scale,and 1/10 of the thickness of the linear bottom layer calculated by the feature length is taken as the minimum grid scale for thermal environment calculation. The performance of low dissipation scheme is verified by hypersonic sphere example with the proposed grid scale