Heat transfer with interface effects in high-enthalpy and high-speed flow: Modelling review and recent progress

Abstract

Abstract Aerodynamics, aerothermodynamics and thermal protection system response in high-enthalpy and high-speed flow is heat transfer with interface effects in nature. Modelling and simulation of these phenomena are of vital significance to ensure high-speed flight thermal safety. The heat transfer phenomena related with gas-surface interaction, interface heterogeneous reactions and microstructure morphology in high-enthalpy and high-speed flow were summarized. The modelling of interface effects and the corresponding coupling algorithms for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and related approaches were reviewed. Recent research activities for interface problems in high-enthalpy and high-speed flow at China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center were discussed. They mainly focus on practical solutions of computational fluid dynamics with viscous wall boundary conditions, multi-zone coupling for fluid-thermal interaction and cross-scale algorithms of CFD coupled with smaller scale theoretical approaches. Finally, further perspectives about heat transfer with interface effects were proposed, including mesoscale experimental verification, interface cross-scale modelling and accuracy/uncertainty of coupling algorithms.