HIPRO: High Reynolds Number Prolate Spheroid

Objectives

  • Characterize experimentally the 3D separated flow structure and wall shear stresses around the body
  • Introduce and demonstrate technologies that could be implemented regularly in Navy testing

Currently

  • Limited data on the flow structure at high Reynolds numbers
  • Essentially no data on the wall shear stresses – needed for modeling hydrodynamic forces
  • No data on the effects of boundary layer tripping in boundary layers with variable pressure gradients

Approach: Simultaneous Application of Internal and external SPIV systems

People

  1. Chintan Panigrahi
  2. Jacob(Jack) Drimer
  3. Dr. Spencer Zimmerman (Former Postdoc)

Acknowledgement

  1. Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC, Carderock)
  2. Deepan Sharma, Shubham Sharma, Koustav Bandyopadhay, Sukbong Chae
  3. JHU Machine shop
  4. LaVision Team
  5. Dr. Elizabeth Callison, University of Michigan
  6. Dr. Charles Fort, George Washington University