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The effect of cooling on supersonic boundary-layer stability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

V. I. Lysenko  and
A. A. Maslov
V. I. Lysenko
Affiliation:
Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, USSR
A. A. Maslov
Affiliation:
Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, USSR
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Abstract

For a number of applications it is important to know the location of the boundary-layer transition from laminar to turbulent. At present it is generally recognized that the onset of turbulence is directly connected with the loss of stability of the initial laminar flow. In the overwhelming majority of cases experimental data on the influence of various factors upon the transition location agree well with the calculated data concerning the influence of these factors on the boundary-layer stability, i.e. the theory of stability may be used successfully to predict various experimental dependencies.

The boundary-layer stability and the transition are considerably affected by heat transfer from the surface of the streamlined body. But, in this case, experimental data on the transition do not always correspond to the results of the stability theory. In particular, experimental works concerning the effect of cooling of the model surface on the supersonic boundary layer transition yield contradictory results (see e.g. Gaponov & Maslov 1980; Morkovin 1969). Some of the contradictions were removed by Demetriades (1978) and Lysenko & Maslov (1981), but on the whole the problem cannot be considered solved, primarily owing to the fact that many theoretical results have not yet been experimentally confirmed.

In the present paper the experimental study of development of small natural disturbances in the boundary layer of a cooled flat plate for Mach numbers M = 2, 3 and 4 is described. It confirms the main conclusions of the linear theory of hydrodynamic stability concerning the fact that surface cooling: (i) stabilizes the first-mode disturbances; (ii) destabilizes the second-mode disturbances; (iii) may lead to the region of unstable frequencies of the first mode being divided into two; (iv) does not affect the interaction of acoustic waves and the supersonic boundary layer.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 147 , October 1984 , pp. 39 - 52
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© 1984 Cambridge University Press

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