Interacting Supersonic Turbulent Boundary Layers Over a Two-Dimensional Protuberance.

Abstract

The report presents a numerical study of attached interacting supersonic turbulent boundary layers over a two-dimensional protuberance. Results are presented in terms of surface pressure, heat transfer and skin-friction distributions. These results indicate a strong effect of the size of the protuberance, Mach number, but a weak effect of Reynolds number and the ratio of wall-to-recovery temperature. The peak heating rates from a set of test cases compare well to a semi-empirical prediction method. In contradistinction to the laminar case, the turbulent recovery zone downstream of the protuberance is very short. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 21, 1974
Accession Number
AD0780691

Entities

People

  • Arnold Polak

Organizations

  • Naval Ordnance Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Friction
  • Heat Transfer
  • Layers
  • Mach Number
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Recovery
  • Reynolds Number
  • Skin Friction
  • Turbulent Boundary Layer
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Boundary Layers
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow