Physical and Chemical Phenomena in High-Speed Flows
A special issue of Fluids (ISSN 2311-5521). This special issue belongs to the section "Turbulence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 1445
Special Issue Editor
Interests: aerospace engineering; aerodynamics; computational fluid dynamics; high-speed flow; multiphase flow
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
When a vehicle travels through the atmosphere at a high speed, the surrounding gas experiences complicated physical and chemical processes thus producing high-temperature gas effects. High-temperature gas effects are a key issue related to high-speed aerodynamic design and optimization. The development and implementation of methods and tools that adequately model fundamental physics and allow for credible physics-based optimization for future operational high-speed vehicle systems are becoming more important due to the requirements of ensuring their flight safety. The aero-thermodynamic design and optimization of high-speed vehicles include wind tunnel testing, flight experiments, and computer simulations. Many aerodynamic and propulsion characteristics still remain uncertain and are difficult to predict due to the lack of flight test data and limitations of ground test facilities.
The Special Issue focuses on the recent advances in the theoretical, numerical, and experimental modeling and simulation of high-speed flows with physical and chemical phenomena. It aims to publish basic and applied research papers, as well as review papers, addressing the high-temperature effects and processes in high-speed flows. Emphasis is placed on how high-temperature processes affect the aerodynamics of high-speed vehicles.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: high-temperature effects, shock and blast waves; mathematical modeling and numerical analysis of shock waves propagation; experimental and theoretical studies on the interaction of shock waves with bodies and obstacles; and fluid dynamics of high-speed reacting flows.
Researchers are invited to contribute their latest insights to the Special Issue and help to advance the field of fluid dynamics of high-speed flows.
Dr. Konstantin Volkov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- high-speed flow
- shock wave
- computational flow dynamics
- chemical reactions
- turbulence
- high-temperature effects
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