Microvortex generators are passive control devices with heights below the boundary-layer thickness that have been proposed to mitigate the detrimental effects of shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction. Despite their demonstrated control effectiveness, several aspects of the flow induced in turbulent boundary layers still need to be characterized thoroughly. In this work, we present a campaign of direct numerical simulations of a turbulent boundary layer on a microramp, to investigate the effect of the Mach number, from subsonic to supersonic regime. We show that the flow topology changes significantly because of compressibility effects, and that typical wake features do not scale linearly with the geometry dimensions but rather depend on the incoming flow conditions. Moreover, we investigate the spectral content in time and space of the wake, which is dominated by the Kelvin–Helmholtz instability developing along the shear layer. For larger Mach numbers, the shedding onset is postponed and exhibits a lower peak frequency that evolves in space. Finally, we extract the spatially coherent structures convected in the wake by means of a dynamic mode decomposition along the characteristics, which represents effectively and efficiently the evolution of the entire field, despite the convective nature of the flow under consideration.


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    Title :

    Direct Numerical Simulation of Boundary Layers over Microramps: Mach Number Effects



    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 62 , 2 ; 542-556


    Publication date :

    2024-02-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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