The Structure of Turbulent Boundary Layers and Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interactions

Abstract

This report is the Final Technical Report for AFOSR Grant 89-0420, monitored by Dr James McMichael, for the period June 15, 1989 to October 14, 1992. Under this program, research was performed (1) to describe the structure of the large-scale motions in supersonic turbulent boundary layers, (2) to study the interaction of that turbulence with shock waves and strategies for controlling the interaction, (3) to differentiate between Mach and Reynolds number effects on turbulence structure in wall-bounded flows, and (4) to develop and implement new non-intrusive diagnostic techniques. The research is aimed at providing physical insight, and scaling information, for the development of turbulence models appropriate for supersonic shear layers. The primary experimental means used in these investigations were the Rayleigh scattering technique to study the instantaneous density field, the RELIEF line tagging method to study the instantaneous velocity field, and a dual hot-wire technique to obtain simultaneous velocity and density signals....Boundary layers, Turbulence, Shock wave boundary layer interaction

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 13, 1993
Accession Number
ADA266240

Entities

People

  • Alexander Smits

Organizations

  • Princeton University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Hot Wire
  • Image Processing
  • Mach Number
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Rayleigh Scattering
  • Reynolds Number
  • Shock Waves
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Boundary Layers