Shock Flow Behavior and Shock Management Over Supersonic Wedge Shapes with Enhance Surface Features: A Comprehensive Review

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10.2991/978-94-6463-922-3_17How to use a DOI?

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Supersonic wedges; shock wave interaction with boundary layer; optimization of the aerodynamic shape; flow control

Abstract

Wedge bodies are fundamental science hardware in high-speed even numerically modelling the physics of supersonic flow, and as such are one of the long-term legacies of airborne supersonic research to the aerospace field of thermodynamics and are found applying in practice in aerospace vehicles as in military aircraft to aerospace launch systems. This exercise offers the detailed examination of the variety of supersonic wedge typologies, its aerodynamic behavior, and the approaches of its surfaces alteration with the aim to optimize the latter. Having direct bearing on the generation of shock waves, the behavior of a boundary layer, and a general aero-efficiency, the geometry of wedges directly influences them. In this paper, six primary categories of supersonic wedges are identified; sharp-edged, blunt, conical, elliptical, variable angle and contoured, with individual satisfactions and applications. Other surface treatments like a controlled roughness, grooves, blended contours, micro-ramps as well as the active flow control system are also analyzed in relation to shock wave and drag reduction. The review utilizes the current knowledge about the wedge aerodynamics, as well as mapping the future direction in terms of the wedge aerodynamics as the most significant disciplines of supersonic flight technologies.

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AU  - P. Rinchu
AU  - J. Hemanandh
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/12/25
TI  - Shock Flow Behavior and Shock Management Over Supersonic Wedge Shapes with Enhance Surface Features: A Comprehensive Review
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Materials, Processes and Technology for Sustainability (RAMPTS 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 243
EP  - 268
SN  - 2590-3217
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DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-922-3_17
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