CRITICAL EVALUATION OF TRANSITION FROM LAMINAR TO TURBULENT SHEAR LAYERS WITH EMPHASIS ON HYPERSONICALLY TRAVELING BODIES
Abstract
The review report represents an attempt to evaluate critically the available data on high-speed boundary layer transition to turbulence and to interpret the apparent agreements and contradictions within some rational framework. Special attention was paid to the more documentable discrepancies between reported results as touchstones of conceptual models and instability theories. Experiments with 'microscopic' information are used as backbone of conceptual models, both linear and nonlinear. Linear instability results are used as a point of departure for the examination of current controversial questions of transition reversal with cooling, unit Reynolds number effect, effect of aerodynamic noise in supersonic wind tunnels, et.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1969
- Accession Number
- AD0686178
Entities
People
- Mark V. Morkovin
Organizations
- Martin Marietta