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González Romero, Andrea (author)As the space industry continues to grow rapidly, the development of reusable launch vehicles has become crucial in achieving cost-effective and sustainable access to space. Payload capacity optimisation has been at the forefront of this effort, leading to a renewed interest in hammerhead or bulbous payload fairing (PLF) configurations. These...master thesis 2023
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Bron Jacobs, Joachim (author)A Tomographic Background-Oriented Schlieren (TBOS) technique is developed to aid in the visualization of compressible flows. An experimental setup was devised around a sub-scale rocket nozzle, in which four cameras were set up in a circular configuration with 30° angular spacing in azimuth. Measurements were taken of the overexpanded supersonic...student report 2023
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Mooiweer, Martijn (author)Acoustic levitation is an novel method that could lend itself very useful to fast and precise transportation of small objects. To verify the acoustic field and the modelling assumptions, the acoustic field must be visualised and quantified. Different methods to visualise a pressure gradient are investigated and rated against design requirements....master thesis 2023
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Formidabile, Martina (author)TOP contoured nozzles, with large area-ratios, are commonly employed in rocket propulsion systems as they feature an excellent thrust-to-weight ratio. A significant shortcoming to this design is that, during the startup and shutdown transients of a LRE, the internal nozzle flow progresses through a series of overexpanded flow states - Free Shock...master thesis 2023
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D'Aguanno, A. (author)The flight envelope of an aircraft operating at high subsonic velocities is bounded by several limitations, one of these consists in thewing experiencing oscillations of a shockwave on its suction side for a certain range ofMach number (Ma), angle of attack (®) and Reynolds number (Re). This phenomenon is referred to as transonic buffet and it...doctoral thesis 2023
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Head, A.J. (author), Michelis, Theodorus (author), Beltrame, F. (author), Fuentes Monjas, B. (author), Casati, Emiliano (author), de Servi, C.M. (author), Colonna, Piero (author)This paper describes an experiment conducted within the nozzle test section of the Organic Rankine Cycle Hybrid Integrated Device (ORCHID) aimed at providing accurate data for the validation of NICFD flow solvers [5]. A supersonic flow of the dense vapor siloxane MM established in the nozzle of the setup was characterized by means of the...book chapter 2023
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Pearse, Oliver (author)During the start-up and shutdown sequence of rocket engines, immense forces are generated that are required to propel the payload into earth's orbit or outer space. The bulk of the generated forces are in the form of thrust. However, forces are also generated that act perpendicularly to the thrust direction. These side-loads are unwanted...master thesis 2022
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Aditya, Abhyuday (author)Supersonic flows cause thin panels to flutter, which is characterized by high-amplitude self-sustained oscillations, increasing the risk of fatigue failure. Flutter is known to be exacerbated when a shock wave impinges on the panel, creating a shock wave/boundary-layer interaction (SWBLI) which promotes separation of flow and leads to increased...master thesis 2022
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Mathijssen, Lucas (author)Supersonic panel flutter is a self-excited vibration, where energy is transferred into thin flexible panels, such as skin panels in supersonic vehicles, from the (supersonic) flow around them, which can lead to their rapid fatigue failure. Relevant examples of this include the failure of skin panels in the X-15 vehicle, or violent oscillations...master thesis 2022
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Hariharan, Gayathri (author)Organic Rankine Cycle systems are gaining increasing attention as a modular, cost-effective and decentralised thermal energy recovery solution. The design of an efficient expander in the ORC system is crucial to its rapid uptake by the industry. Compared to volumetric expanders, a radial turbine provides advantages in terms of flexibility and...master thesis 2021
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Miedema, Mark (author)This master thesis investigates the aerodynamic response of the Hyperloop breach failure scenario. Using a scaled physical test setup, the air pressure inside a Hyperloop tube is lowered to 10 mbar, emulating Hyperloop conditions. By opening a breach hole inside the tube, air will flow into the tube due to the pressure difference with the...master thesis 2021
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Barsom, Bavly (author)Supersonic intakes are essential in assuring proper combustion for operating ramjet engines on cruise missiles. However, due to increasing threats and a rapidly changing service environment, today's intakes do not fit anymore to comply with the new set of requirements to tackle the above challenges. Therefore, a novel supersonic intake design is...master thesis 2021
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Laguarda, L. (author), Santiago Patterson, J. (author), Schrijer, F.F.J. (author), van Oudheusden, B.W. (author), Hickel, S. (author)Experiments on shock–shock interactions were conducted in a transonic–supersonic wind tunnel with variable free-stream Mach number functionality. Transition between the regular interaction (RI) and the Mach interaction (MI) was induced by variation of the free-steam Mach number for a fixed interaction geometry, as opposed to most previous...journal article 2021
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Beltrame, F. (author), Head, A.J. (author), de Servi, C.M. (author), Pini, M. (author), Schrijer, F.F.J. (author), Colonna, Piero (author)This paper reports one of the initial NICFD experiments in the nozzle test section of the ORCHID aimed at providing accurate data for the validation of flow solvers, albeit, at this stage of the research, the focus is limited to inviscid phenomena. Notably, a series of schlieren photographs displaying Mach waves in the supersonic flow of the...conference paper 2021
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Mc Carthy, Robert (author)Of the many challenges involved in developing reliable and sustainable spaceflight, perhaps none are so dangerous and difficult to study as the aerothermodynamic conditions involved when re-entering the atmosphere. These dangerous conditions typically occur due to a variety of flow phenomena, one of which is shock—boundary-layer interactions ...master thesis 2020
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Pazhev, Ventsislav (author)Transverse jet injection into supersonic crossflows is encountered with Aerospace applications such as fuel injection in Supersonic Combustion Ramjet (SCRamjet) engines and reaction-jet-based attitude control systems. In particular, for the case of SCRamjets, the short residence times of the fuel in the combustion chamber can be countered by the...master thesis 2020
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Camps Pons, Carlos (author)Transonic buffet is an aerodynamic instability that appears on aerofoils and wings at certain combinations of Mach number and angle of attack, and which limits the aircraft flight envelope. This thesis project presents an experimental<br/>investigation of buffet employing stereoscopic PIV and Background Oriented Schlieren. By using four...master thesis 2019
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Santiago Patterson, Jaime (author)An experimental investigation on shock-shock interactions has been conducted with the aim of studying the transition between Regular (RI) and Mach interactions (MI) under the condition of variable inflow Mach number. The RI contains only oblique shocks while the MI has a quasi-normal shock segment, known as the Mach stem. MI configurations...master thesis 2019
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Krishnan, Vinayak (author)A novel technique for measuring capillary/gravity waves travelling on air/water interfaces is investigated. The main motivation is to measure the free surface deformations of an air cavity used for air lubrication of ship hulls. Due to limitations in the available techniques, two novel methods are proposed, out of which the Stereo Particle Image...master thesis 2018
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Charruault, F.T. (author), Greidanus, A.J. (author), Breugem, W.P. (author), Westerweel, J. (author)The present study introduces an experimental technique based on a Free Surface-Synthetic Schlieren (FS-SS) method in order to characterize free surfaces subjected to strong deformations. Current synthetic Schlieren methods are based on local image correlation and thus limited to rather weak image deformations, implying that they can only resolve...conference paper 2018
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