{"id":209839,"date":"2025-03-27T02:21:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/hypersonic-shock-waves-3d-simulations-expose-new-flow-disturbances"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:21:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:21:01","slug":"hypersonic-shock-waves-3d-simulations-expose-new-flow-disturbances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/hypersonic-shock-waves-3d-simulations-expose-new-flow-disturbances","title":{"rendered":"Hypersonic shock waves: 3D simulations expose new flow disturbances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hypersonic-shock-waves-3d-simulations-expose-new-flow-disturbances.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At hypersonic speeds, complexities occur when the gases interact with the surface of the vehicle, such as boundary layers and shock waves. Researchers in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, were able to observe new disturbances in simulations conducted for the first time in 3D.<\/p>\n<p>The study, \u201cLoss of axial symmetry in hypersonic flows over conical shapes,\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevFluids.10.033901\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Physical Review Fluids.<\/p>\n<p>Fully 3D simulations require a great deal of processing power, making the work expensive to compute. Two things made it possible for Deborah Levin and her Ph.D. student Irmak Taylan Karpuzcu to conduct the research: Time on Frontera, the leadership-class computer system at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and software developed in previous years by several of Levin\u2019s former graduate students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At hypersonic speeds, complexities occur when the gases interact with the surface of the vehicle, such as boundary layers and shock waves. Researchers in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, were able to observe new disturbances in simulations conducted for the first time in 3D. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}