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Supersonic Flow Field Characteristics of a Sharp Spiked Blunt Body Having Various Nose Cone Fairings
Experimental and computational investigations were conducted to examine the flow characteristics of a blunt body with a sharp spike attached to...
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A High-Order Hybrid Numerical Scheme for Hypersonic Flow Over A Blunt Body
A hybrid scheme is developed for direct numerical simulations of hypersonic flows over a blunt body. The scheme switches to the first-order AUSMPW+...
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Flow Field Characteristics of a Blunt Body with Different Nose Cone Fairing at Supersonic Speed
Investigations were made with several nose cone fairing of blunt body with an attempt to understand its flow field characterises. Experiments and...
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Investigation upon Piezoelectric Wind Energy Harvesters with Tandem Blunt Bodies of Different Geometries
Piezoelectric wind energy harvesters have emerged as a promising solution for providing high-power to low-power electronic devices. Tremendous...
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Drag and heat-flux assessment of hypersonic flow on an asymmetric blunt shaped body
Assessment of aerodynamic forces and heat-transfer rates for certain flight conditions is an essential task in designing a hypersonic vehicle....
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Review of Literature: Behind Helmet Blunt Trauma Mechanisms
Combat helmets are designed to protect military personnel during impact events by defeating incoming threats (blunt, ballistic, or blast threats)...
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Fully conservative overset mesh to overcome the blunt body metric singularity in finite difference methods
A fully conservative overset mesh method is proposed and applied to overcome the metric singularity at the symmetry line for blunt bodies, e.g.,...
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Numerical Analysis of Thorax Injury Caused by the Blunt Impact of SIR-X Sponge Grenade
To effectively assess the injury risk of the blunt impact of the SIR-X sponge grenade on the human thorax, in this paper, we used a numerical...
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Prediction of skull fractures in blunt force head traumas using finite element head models
Traumatic head injuries remain a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Although skull fractures are one of the most common head injuries,...
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Wall temperature effects on the stability of leeward vortices of a blunt inclined cone
Streamwise vortex instability is one of the most potent mechanisms for the transition of the three-dimensional boundary layers. By using the global...
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Features of the Surface Heating of a Heat-Insulated Blunt Plate in the Strong-Interaction Regime
Results of an experimental investigation of the heating of the surface of a blunt plate, made of a material having a low heat conductivity, in a wind...
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Vortex-Induced Vibration and Frequency Lock-In of an Elastically Suspended Hydrofoil with Blunt Trailing Edge
Vortex-induced vibration of hydrofoils is concerned with structural safety and noise level in hydraulic machinery and marine engineering. The...
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Analysis of Hypersonic Flow Over Pin Protrusions on a Blunt Body
The steady-state analysis of hypersonic flow over a blunt body with protrusions is done using ANSYS Fluent, with k-omega turbulent model. The heat...
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Aerodynamic interactions of blunt bodies free-flying in hypersonic flow
This paper takes a new look at how the aerodynamic interactions of multiple bodies in high-speed flow affect their motion behaviors. The influence of...
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The Risk of Skin Injury Caused by High-Rate Blunt Impacts to the Human Thorax
Less-lethal weapons (LLWs) based on blunt impactors are seeing increased usage during crowd-control scenarios, and it is crucial that these devices...
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Evaluating the impact resistance of double-layered aluminum alloy plates with diverse shapes against blunt rigid projectiles
Scholars have studied the impact resistance of flat metal plates quite well. However, the connecting part of the protective end often presents other...
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Evaluation of an In Situ Ovine Model as a Surrogate for Human Skin Injury Caused by High-Rate Blunt Impact
Understanding the risk of skin injury caused by impacts from blunt less lethal weapons (LLW) is critical for designing safer devices, but the...
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Effect of Bluff Body on Combustion Characteristics of Secondary Combustion Chamber of Solid Rocket Scramjet with Boron Contained
Solid scramjet can be divided into solid rocket scramjet and solid fuel scramjet. Compared with solid fuel scramjet, the solid rocket scramjet has...
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Small Unsecured Objects Transported in a Vehicle and Their Impact on Human Head Injury– Blunt Injury Criterion Approach
The presented study deals with a familiar situation when unsecured objects are transported in a vehicle. Unsecured objects have a character of...
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Optimization of Blunt Nose Semi-spherical Heat-Shield in Hypersonic Flow at Mach 7.99
A Thermal Protection System (TPS) protects the vehicle from the extreme heat generated during high-speed flow. The heat-shield used for thermal...