78th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (Nov 23 — 25, 2025)

P010: The Wake Induced Spray of the Gauntlet Starfighter in Close Combat on Kalevala

Authors
  • Tim Hoogenraad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Raymond K. Lennon , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Adrian Lozano-Duran , California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ambushed by a squadron of tie interceptors near her home planet of Kalevala, Bo-Katan Kryze engages in evasive maneuvers through a narrow canyon to buy herself time for reinforcements to arrive. Multi-physics wall-modeled large eddy simulation of the Gauntlet star fighter during its aerial pursuit on Kalevala at a Mach number of 0.4 and a Reynolds number of 108. The wake and water spray are visualized using velocity magnitude.

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