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Andrew J. Brune
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Advisor: Serhat Hosder
Abstract
NASA has placed great importance on space exploration including the development of innovative spacecraft configurations for affordable access to space, i.e. hypersonic cruise vehicles that utilize hypersonic air-breathing propulsion such as the X-43. The development of these aerospace vehicles requires effective, accurate, and computationally efficient design methodologies. The present paper will discuss the research that aims to address this requirement with the study and evaluation of computationally efficient physics-based models for aerodynamic heating analysis of hypersonic cruise vehicles in conceptual design phase. The Hyper X-43 model and the Orbiter shuttle will be examined in the Hypersonic Engineering Aerothermodynamic Trajectory Tool Kit (HEAT-TK) program to predict the aerodynamic heating capabilities from a hypersonic standpoint and thoroughly justify its significance from the heat flux and skin friction distributions. The hypersonic cruise vehicles, in general, are mainly determined to have dominant aeroheating features based on its design conditions, including the Orbiter shuttle.
Andrew Brune from St. Charles, Missouri, is currently an undergraduate senior upon completion of his Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Andrew plans to attend graduate school at Missouri S&T with emphasis in hypersonic flow and hopes to complete graduate work under direction of NASA fellowships. He has been actively involved in Sigma Gamma Tau and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics as a student member.
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