Turbulent Shear Layers in Supersonic Flow

Turbulent Shear Layers in Supersonic Flow
Author: Alexander J. Smits
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2006-05-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0387263055

A good understanding of turbulent compressible flows is essential to the design and operation of high-speed vehicles. Such flows occur, for example, in the external flow over the surfaces of supersonic aircraft, and in the internal flow through the engines. Our ability to predict the aerodynamic lift, drag, propulsion and maneuverability of high-speed vehicles is crucially dependent on our knowledge of turbulent shear layers, and our understanding of their behavior in the presence of shock waves and regions of changing pressure. Turbulent Shear Layers in Supersonic Flow provides a comprehensive introduction to the field, and helps provide a basis for future work in this area. Wherever possible we use the available experimental work, and the results from numerical simulations to illustrate and develop a physical understanding of turbulent compressible flows.

Pressure Gradient Effects on Supersonic Boundary Layer Turbulence

Pressure Gradient Effects on Supersonic Boundary Layer Turbulence
Author: A. J. Laderman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1979
Genre: Aerodynamics, Supersonic
ISBN:

Measurements of mean flow profiles at several streamwise locations in a supersonic turbulent boundary layer growing under a continuous adverse pressure gradient are reported. Tests were performed at a freestream Mach number of 3, for an adiabatic wall, using two curved ramps designed to produce constant pressure gradient flows. The velocity profile data, when transformed to incompressible coordinates, are in good agreement with Coles universal 'wall-wake' velocity profile and they indicate that the boundary layer is in local equilibrium and essentially independent of upstream history. In addition, the Coles wake parameters and Clauser shape factors, characterizing the transformed profiles, are in accord with the results of low speed correlations of adverse pressure gradient flows. The turbulent transport terms were extracted from the mean flow field data and indicate that for a given ramp, the profile of turbulent shear stress normalized by the wall shear, versus distance from the surface, normalized by the local boundary thickness, is severely distored by the pressure gradient although it is apparently insensitive to local conditions.

Numerical Simulation of a Spatially Evolving Supersonic Turbulent Boundary Layer

Numerical Simulation of a Spatially Evolving Supersonic Turbulent Boundary Layer
Author: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2018-06-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781721518654

The results from direct numerical simulations of a spatially evolving, supersonic, flat-plate turbulent boundary-layer flow, with free-stream Mach number of 2.25 are presented. The simulated flow field extends from a transition region, initiated by wall suction and blowing near the inflow boundary, into the fully turbulent regime. Distributions of mean and turbulent flow quantities are obtained and an analysis of these quantities is performed at a downstream station corresponding to Re(sub x)= 5.548 x10(exp 6) based on distance from the leading edge. Gatski, T. B. and Erlebacher, G. Langley Research Center NASA/TM-2002-211934, NAS 1.15:211934, L-18225

Supersonic Turbulent Boundary-layer Flows with Mass Injection Through Slots And/or Porous Walls

Supersonic Turbulent Boundary-layer Flows with Mass Injection Through Slots And/or Porous Walls
Author: Alvin L. Murray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1975
Genre: Boundary layer (Meteorology)
ISBN:

An implicit finite-difference method was used to solve the compressible boundary-layer equations, and to study the effects of mass transfer through porous plates, slots, and a combination of the two. The effects of the external pressure field were also included by using a global pressure interaction scheme. Two different eddy viscosity models were used for the slot and slot-porous combination cases: one was a two-layer model with inner and outer laws, and the other was a multi-layer model with as many as five separate layers. Results of the present method were compared with experimental data at a Mach number of 2.8. Comparisons of the skin friction reduction and Mach number profiles gave good to excellent agreement. Pressure interaction had little effect on the slot injection skin friction but increased the skin friction of the porous and slot-porous combination markedly.

Approximate Turbulent Boundary-layer Development in Plane Compressible Flow Along Thermally Insulated Surfaces with Application to Supersonic-tunnel Contour Correction

Approximate Turbulent Boundary-layer Development in Plane Compressible Flow Along Thermally Insulated Surfaces with Application to Supersonic-tunnel Contour Correction
Author: Maurice Tucker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 1950
Genre: Air flow
ISBN:

As an application of the method, the contour correction of supersonic nozzles for the effects of boundary-layer development is discussed from the requirement of continuity of mass flow and from the requirement of expansion- and shock-wave elimination.