A SUMMARY ANALYSIS OF LABORATORY HYPERSONIC WAKE TRANSITION EXPERIMENTS

Abstract

Hypersonic Wake transition data over a range of reynolds numbers have been obtained over the past several years at many laboratories. In the present paper, the available experimental data is structured into three laws: The Law of the Far Wake, The Law of the Near Wake, and The Law of the Interpolation Regime. These three laws are then represented on a single Hypersonic Wake Transition Map. The Reynolds number is selected as the correlating parameter, where local conditions, characterizing the state of the gas at transition are used for the property values. The correlating constant is determined from the ballistic range data. For high Mach number flows, binary scaling allows the representation of the Reynolds number as a pressure times a length.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0805554

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  • A. Goldburg

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Boundary Layer Flow
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Equations
  • Flow Fields
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Mach Number
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Navier Stokes Equations
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Pressure Gradients
  • Refractive Index
  • Reynolds Number
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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  • Approximation Theory.
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

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