Turbulent Boundary Layers Over Rough Surfaces Hypersonic Flow.

Abstract

A method for predicting the downstream development of momentum thickness, skin friction, and heat transfer in a supersonic turbulent boundary layer over a rough flat plate based on ideas of Van Driest, Rotta, and Bradshaw is derived and discussed. Admissible thermal boundary conditions include the case of prescribed wall temperature and the case of an adiabatic wall. The velocity profiles for compressible nonadiabatic flow are expressed as transformations of the corresponding velocity profiles in incompressible adiabatic flow. Analytical curve fits to the experimentally determined law-of-the wall (including the sublayer region) are given, as are analytical representations of the effects of sand grain roughness based on the well known data of Nikuradse. A FORTRAN source code for implementing the method is included as are sample calculations of the momentum thickness, skin friction, and heat transfer for several roughness heights. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 30, 1984
Accession Number
ADA145040

Entities

People

  • J. M. Russell

Organizations

  • University of Oklahoma

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Boundary Layer
  • Compressible Flow
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computer Programs
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Friction
  • Heat Transfer
  • Hypersonic Flow
  • Layers
  • Momentum
  • Roughness
  • Skin Friction
  • Turbulent Boundary Layer
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Boundary Layers