Unsteady Transonic Flows in Two Dimensional Channels.

Abstract

A two dimensional unsteady transonic irrotational inviscid flow of a perfect gas with constant specific heats is considered. The analysis involves perturbations from a uniform sonic isentropic flow. The governing perturbation potential equations are derived for various orders of the ratio of the characteristic time associated with a temporal flow disturbance to the time taken by a sonic disturbance to traverse the transonic regime. The case where this ratio is large compared to one is studied in detail. A similarity solution involving an arbitrary function of time is found and it is shown that this solution corresponds to unsteady channel flows with either stationary or time varying wall shapes. Numerical computations are presented showing the temporal changes in flow structure as a disturbance dies out exponentially for the following typical nozzle flows: simple accelerating (Meyer) flow and flow with supersonic pockets (Taylor and limiting Taylor flow). (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0727641

Entities

People

  • Thomas C. Adamson Jr.

Organizations

  • Purdue University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Channel Flow
  • Computations
  • Cooperation
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Inviscid Flow
  • Mathematics
  • Michigan
  • Perturbations
  • Specific Heat
  • Stationary
  • Transonic Flow
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Boundary Layers