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HYMOR: An open-source package for global modal, non-modal, and receptivity analysis in high-enthalpy hypersonic vehicles

Fluid Dynamics 2026-04-07 v1 Computational Physics

Abstract

We present HYMOR (HYpersonic MOdal/non-modal, and Receptivity), an open-source computational framework for the linear stability analysis of high-enthalpy hypersonic flows. The toolkit includes MATLAB and Julia implementations and is released under the MIT license. HYMOR provides global modal, non-modal, and freestream receptivity analyses capable of capturing interactions among spatially separated physical mechanisms that are inaccessible to traditional local methods. A shock-fitting formulation is employed to treat the bow shock as a sharp discontinuity, ensuring that the interaction of infinitesimal disturbances with the shock reproduces the exact response predicted by linear interaction analysis. The code also solves the nonlinear equations for base-flow computation and automatically linearizes the resulting discrete operators for the stability analyses. Several thermochemical models are available for treatment of real-gas effects in high-enthalpy regimes. The numerical implementation is verified against a collection of benchmark cases that demonstrate the accuracy and capabilities of the toolkit across its modal, non-modal, and receptivity analysis modes.

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@article{arxiv.2604.03824,
  title  = {HYMOR: An open-source package for global modal, non-modal, and receptivity analysis in high-enthalpy hypersonic vehicles},
  author = {Adrián Antón-Álvarez and Adrián Lozano-Durán},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.03824},
  year   = {2026}
}

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26 pages, 24 figures