This work presents an experimental and numerical study of hypersonic transitional shock-wave–boundary-layer interaction, wherein transition occurs between separation and reattachment in the detached shear layer. Experiments were conducted in a free-piston compression-heated Ludwieg tube that provided a Mach 5.8 flow at a freestream Reynolds number of 7 × 10 6    m 1 . A shock generator deflected the flow by 10°, resulting in an oblique shock impinging on a flat plate. The shock triggered transition in the boundary layer and the formation of Görtler-like vortices downstream of reattachment. Heat flux and pressure distributions on the plate were measured globally using infrared thermography and pressure-sensitive paint. Oil film visualization was employed to evaluate the boundary-layer reattachment. Numerical results consist of Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes and fully laminar steady-state three-dimensional simulations. Shock-induced transition is considered to be the cause of the overshoot in peak pressure and peak heating of approximately 15%, in agreement with previous studies. Görtler instability, triggered by the concave nature of the bubble at separation, is identified as the main mechanism leading to boundary-layer transition, resulting in heat-flux variations of less than 30%. By comparing numerical results against thermographic values it is possible to delineate the extent of transition. Within this region, the disturbance amplification factor was estimated to be approximately between 6 and 10, in reasonable agreement with other relevant numerical and experimental data.


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    Title :

    Hypersonic Transitional Shock-Wave–Boundary-Layer Interaction on a Flat Plate



    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 58 , 2 ; 814-829


    Publication date :

    2020-02-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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