Hypersonic CFD Verification Paper
ASME Journals shared a new code‑verification paper for multi‑fidelity hypersonic aerodynamics models, highlighting error analysis and validation needs in high‑enthalpy flows shared. The work underscores why uncertainty quantification and cross‑validation with scarce flight/tunnel data are now core CFD competencies.
The ASME Journal article appears in J. Verif. Valid. Uncert., Volume 10 Issue 2 (Paper No. VVUQ‑25‑1005, DOI 10.1115/1.4070187) and credits Jared R. Kirsch, Aaron M. Krueger, and Blake W. Lance as authors. asmedigitalcollection.asme.org U.S. Department of Energy records list the paper’s authors as Sandia National Laboratories staff and attach report numbers SAND2025‑15462J and SAND2025‑00835R under DOE/NNSA contract NA0003525. osti.gov The study applied analytic-solution comparisons, method-of-manufactured-solutions, and order‑of‑accuracy testing specifically to two lower‑fidelity model forms and documents the identification and subsequent resolution of code errors to demonstrate model consistency. asmedigitalcollection.asme.org Those two models reside in Sandia’s SPARC (Sandia Parallel Aerodynamics and Reentry Code) suite — a production hypersonics code used in prior high‑enthalpy validation campaigns (see the 2023 conference paper, OSTI ID 2431081) and in Sandia’s exascale/SPARC development efforts documented by Sandia. osti.gov
