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Hypersonic bow shock — temperature field

2D slice through the flow around a blunt-body vehicle at Mach 18. Temperature scalar field rendered at ~60k pixels/frame; velocity streamlines overlaid. Altitude + velocity drop live.

LIVE

Flight · T+ 0.0s

altitude80 km
velocity7.6 km/s
Mach22.5
dynamic q0.3 kPa
Tstag11 400 K
heat flux— MW/m²
T11 400 K

Flow is a cheap 2D analytic approximation (oblique-shock deflection + Newtonian heating). Good enough to feel right; calibrate against DSMC offline.