Course Presentation

At the end of the course, attendees will have developed basic understanding of how hypersonic vehicles work, how they can be used for aerospace applications and what is required to design and simulate them. Practical exercises will offer students hands-on experience with CFD simulations of hypersonic flow over a cone and the basics of waverider geometry generation.

It is expected that attendees will have a basic understanding of space systems as well as compressible fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. No prior knowledge of CAD or CFD is required. Instructions on the installation of the required software will be provided on the website. It is expected that registered attendees will have installed the required (open source) software on their private laptops ahead of the meeting.

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2. J. Blazek, Computational Fluid Dynamics - Principles and Applications, Elsevier, 3rd Edition, 2015, eBook ISBN: 9780128011720.

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4. E.H. Hirschel, Basis of Aerothermodynamics, 2nd edition, Springer publishers, 2015. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-14373-6

5. C.B. Laney, Computational Gasdynamics, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN: 978-0-521-62558-6.

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9. E.F. Toro, Riemann Solvers and Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics - A Practical Introduction, 3rd edition, Springer, 2009, e-ISBN 978-3-540-49834-6.

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