Prediction and Optimization Framework for Assessing Aerothermal Performance of Hypersonic Reentry Vehicles

Identification and characterization of the maximum and integrated aerothermal loads drive the thermal management and thermal protection systems in the design of hypersonic vehicles. External vehicle geometry, reentry or mission profile, and attitude control can impart important changes to unsteady thermal loading. The accurate characterization of maximum and time-integrated thermal load represents a multiscale problem with strong multiphysics coupling. The present work proposes a low-fidelity op