04 April 2017 6 3K Report

Technically speaking the total temperature should not change across a shock. But when I tried Simulating a Hypersonic flow across a conical body (0 AOA), you can see that the temperature across the shock dips a bit which is undesirable. The body is simulated for reentry conditions at 42 km above the surface of earth. Does anyone have any idea why I possibly might be doing wrong?

Here the details I used for my flow simulation are mentioned

1. Solver >Density based >Steady >Axisymmetric

2. Models > Energy(on) >k-epsilon model - realizable - enhanced wall treatment.

3. Boundary conditions > pressure farfield, axis and walls

4.Methods > Explicit formulation, Flux type >AUSM

Gradient >Green-Gauss cell based

Flow >First order upwind

Turbulent Kinetic Energy and Dissipation rate >First Order Upwind

5. Controls >Courant no - 1

With the above conditions I could develop the below shown contours. The solution did converge. But the error in total temperature still remains. Any help would be appreciated. 

Thanks in advance

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