A Review of the Design of Cone-Cylinder-Flare Geometries for Stability Analyses and Conventional/Quiet Wind Tunnel Tests

Sebastien Esquieu, Steven P. Schneider, Elizabeth K. Benitez +1

In order to study the effects of pressure gradients, flow expansion, and recompression on the stability of hypersonic boundary-layers, axisymmetric cone-cylinder-flare configuratio…