I am currently developing an aerodynamic heating model based on ESDU data sheet methods (69009,69010,69012,69015) and I'm looking for temperature flight data for supersonic configurations (Concorde, SR-71, D-21,...) for verification and validation purposes.
If anyone knows of high fidelity data that includes Mach/altitude/temperature profiles, I would greatly appreciate you pointing me towards it.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/~aae519/BAM6QT-Mach-6-tunnel/reviewpapers/flight-transition-review.pdf
It is a review of flight data. Some references provide temperature data. Among them NACA/NASA reports are as a rule available online for free. Hope it helps.
Anton Noev thank you for your reply. I will dig into the data and hopefully find a useful set for my validation!
Hey Eddie, I hope life is still good over at Cranfield :)
I don't have info on most of those immediately, but you can find tons of information on the Shuttle and X15.
Shuttle Performance - Lessons learnt for example has trajectory, tempreture, heat flux, film coefficients, you name it. You just need to find the range you are looking for.
SR-71, look for "A Historical Perspective of the YF-12 Thermal Loads and Structures Program" it has flight temperature data, but also lot of references.
For X15 look up Technical memorandum X-486 "Skin and structural temperatures measured on the X-15 airplane during a flight to a Mach number of 3.3" The doc number is 19630004036.pdf It has everything you need, provided you are happy with the aircraft!
These are the ones that immediately come to mind, send me an email if you need anything else!
Cheers
David