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Hypersonic Flow
Hypersonic flow is often accompanied by phenomena such as shock waves and real gas effects, and its thermodynamic characteristics, transport characteristics, and energy transfer and conversion are very complicated. It involves additional instabilities, disturbance sources, and parametric influences that are not present at low speed. In general, hypersonic flow has four "high" characteristics: high-temperature, high-pressure, high-speed, and high-frequency, which brings great challenges to researchers. This special topic focuses on recent advances in the study of hypersonic flows.
Guest Editor: Cunbiao Lee

Instability and Transition
Global and local analyses of the Görtler instability in hypersonic flow
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Uy Ken Chun Kit (黃駿傑); Hao Jiaao (郝佳傲); Wen Chih-Yung (温志湧)
Compressible Flows
Boris S. Leonov; Tyler S. Dean; Christopher M. Limbach; Rodney D. Bowersox; Richard B. Miles
Compressible Flows
Unsteady interaction mechanism of transverse stage separation in hypersonic flow for a two-stage-to-orbit vehicle
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Wang Yue (王粤); Wang Yunpeng (汪运鹏); Jiang Zonglin (姜宗林)
Compressible Flows
Numerical investigation of surface catalytic effect on the plasma sheath of a hypersonic re-entry capsule
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Yu Minghao (喻明浩); Qiu Zeyang (邱泽洋); Yusuke Takahashi
Instability and Transition
Energy growth of vortical, acoustic, and entropic components of the second-mode instability in the hypersonic boundary layer
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Long Tiehan (龙铁汉); Guo Peixu (郭培旭); Zhao Rui (赵瑞); Wen Chihyung (温志湧); Ji Feng (纪锋)
Compressible Flows
Amplification of turbulent kinetic energy and temperature fluctuation in a hypersonic turbulent boundary layer over a compression ramp
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Guo Tongbiao (郭同彪); Zhang Ji (张吉); Tong Fulin (童福林); Li Xinliang (李新亮)
Interfacial Flows
Influence of surface nanostructures on the catalytic recombination of hyperthermal non-equilibrium flow
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He Lichao (贺立超); Ye Zhifan (叶致凡); Cao Yingfei (曹盈菲); Tang Ju (汤巨); Zhao Jin (赵瑾); Wen Dongsheng (文东升)
Turbulent Flows
Resolvent-based analysis of hypersonic turbulent boundary layers with/without wall cooling
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Fan Yitong (范钇彤); Li Weipeng (李伟鹏); Richard D. Sandberg
Turbulent Flows
Optimization study on adaptive control performance of shock wave/boundary layer interactions with different secondary recirculation configurations
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Zhong Xiang-Yu (钟翔宇); Huang Wei (黄伟); Cao Meng-Fei (曹梦霏); Wu Han (吴瀚); Dai Lin (代林); Du Zhao-Bo (杜兆波)
Turbulent Flows
Direct numerical simulation of hypersonic wall-bounded turbulent flows: An improved inflow boundary condition and applications
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Fan Mo (莫凡); Qiang Li (李强); Likun Zhang (张立坤); Zhenxun Gao (高振勋)
Compressible Flows
Monal Patel; Salvador Navarro-Martinez
Instability and Transition
Roughness effect on hypersonic second mode instability and transition on a cone
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Christopher Haley; Xiaolin Zhong (钟小林)
Compressible Flows
Low electron density channel revealed in the plasma layer of hypersonic vehicle under a novel magnetic control
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Xiaojing Zheng; Siyao Chen; Ke Jin
Instability and Transition
Effects of entropy layer on the boundary layer over hypersonic blunt cones considering chemical reactions
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Zhe Wang (王哲); Yufeng Han (韩宇峰); Wei Cao (曹伟)
Compressible Flows
Investigation of flow control methods for reducing heat flux on a V-shaped blunt leading edge under real gas effects
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Shuai Li (李帅); Chao Yan (闫超); Dake Kang (康大可); Sijia Liu (刘思佳); Zhenhua Jiang (姜振华)
Instability and Transition
Receptivity and its influence on transition prediction of a hypersonic boundary layer over a small bluntness cone
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Menghao Niu (牛萌浩); Caihong Su (苏彩虹)
Turbulent Flows
Measurement of hypersonic turbulent boundary layer on a flat plate using cylindrical focused laser differential interferometer
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Ranran Huang (黄冉冉); Wanting Liu (柳婉婷); Jiangyi Cheng (成江逸); Jie Wu (吴杰)
Compressible Flows
Influence of thermochemical nonequilibrium on expansion tube air test conditions: A numerical study
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Sangdi Gu (顾桑迪); Jiaao Hao (郝佳傲); Qiu Wang (汪球); Chih-Yung Wen (温志湧)
Compressible Flows
A quasi-one-dimensional model for the stagnation streamline in hypersonic magnetohydrodynamic flows
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Kai Luo (罗凯); Qiu Wang (汪球); Jinping Li (李进平); Wei Zhao (赵伟); Sangdi Gu (顾桑迪)
Compressible Flows
An experimental study on the stability of hypersonic plate boundary layer regulated by a plasma actuation array
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Hesen Yang (杨鹤森); Hua Liang (梁华); Chuanbiao Zhang (张传标); Yun Wu (吴云); Zhehao Li (李哲昊); Haohua Zong (宗豪华); Zhi Su (苏志); Bo Yang (杨波); Yakang Kong (孔亚康); Dongsheng Zhang (张东盛); Yinghong Li (李应红)