Fluorescence velocimetry of the hypersonic, separated flow over a cone

Planar laser-induced fluorescence of nitric oxide is used to measure a component of the velocity field for the Mach 7 flow around a 30-deg half-angle, 50-mm-diam cone mounted to a long, 38-mm-diam shaft, or sting. Transverse velocities are measured in the freestream, the shock layer, and the separated region at the junction between the cone and the sting. For most of the flowfield, the uncertainty of the measurements is between ±50 and ±100 m/s for velocities ranging from -300 to 1300 m/s, corresponding to a minimum uncertainty of ±5%. The measurements are compared with the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code CFD-FASTRAN . The agreement between the theoretical model and the experiment is reasonably good. CFD accurately predicts the size and shape of the shock layer and separated region behind the cone as well as the magnitude of the gas velocity near the reattachment shock. However, the magnitude of the velocity in the shock layer and gas expansion differ somewhat from that predicted by CFD. The discrepancies are attributed to a small systematic error associated with laser-beam attenuation and also to inexact modeling of the flowfield by CFD

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