Numerical Study on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of Supersonic and Hypersonic Missiles

Aerodynamics plays an important factor in the design of a missile. In this paper, a study of the aerodynamic characteristics has been carried out for a 2D missile geometry using CFD simulations. The missile chosen for the analysis was the first modern ballistic missile, V2 Rocket. Parametric study at supersonic and hypersonic flow regimes at 0° and 5° angle of attack was carried out. Two different types of computational grids were generated with one of them resolving the boundary layer. The grid and computational domain were generated using the ANSYS Workbench environment. The numerical simulation was carried out using ANSYS Fluent.