24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-P.16

HYPERVELOCITY FLOW RESEARCH IN BALLISTIC RANGE

K. Togami, T. Hashimoto*, K. Takayama**
Nagoya Aerospace Systems Works, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, LTD., Japan; *Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan; **Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Japan

Keywords: Ballistic Range, Hypervelocity Flow, Reentry, Wake Flow, Shock

Hypervelocity flow studies using ballistic range facility are underway as a collaboration research project of Tohoku University and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for several years. Preliminary results from two research projects are presented in this paper. First project is the experimental study of shock on shock interaction phenomena in front of the double cone projectile in hypersonic regime. Laser holographic interferometry was used to visualized the flow field around the double cone shaped projectile.

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