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Viscous interaction over concave and convex surfaces at hypersonic speeds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

S. Mohammadian
S. Mohammadian
Affiliation:
Aeronautics Department, Imperial College, London
Present address: Mechanical Engineering Department, Arya-Mehr University, Teheran, Iran.
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Abstract

The growth of hypersonic boundary layers over both concave and convex surfaces is described, the strong-viscous-interaction equation due to Cheng et al. (1961) for curved surfaces with sharp leading edges being solved asymptotically for small and large arguments. Both the asymptotic solution for large arguments and a numerical integration predict an oscillatory behaviour of the boundary-layer thickness on concave surfaces. A modification of Cheng's theory, as suggested by Sullivan (1968) and Stollery (1970), is also examined and compared with experimental data reported here. The experiments were conducted in air using a hypersonic gun tunnel under cold wall conditions at M∞ = 12·25. They included measurement of surface pressure, heat-transfer distributions and schlieren studies for concave and convex models.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , 12 September 1972 , pp. 163 - 175
Copyright
© 1972 Cambridge University Press

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