Influence of Surface Roughness and Freestream Turbulence on the Second Order Transport of Turbulence in Non-Equilibrium Boundary Layers

Abstract

This document describes the results of AFOSR Grant F49620-01-1-0115, which was a one-year project to bridge the gap between AFOSR Grants F49620-98-1-0038 and F49620-02-1-0365. The objectives of the grant F49620-01-1-0115 were to design and construct Mach 3.0 rough-wall, favorable pressure-gradient test sections and perform wind tunnel tests. Ten favorable pressure gradient models were designed and constructed. However, testing was not accomplished. Instead, to continue progress, numerical simulations were performed. First, algebraic roughness models, which were previously validated by the PI for flat-plate flows, were incorporated into a parabolized Navier-Stokes solver, and simulations of the smooth and rough wall supersonic favorable pressure gradient flows were accomplished. Second, additional simulations were performed with the Wilcox k-w model using the Aerosoft, Inc. CFD code GASP.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA407911

Entities

People

  • Rodney D. Bowersox

Organizations

  • University of Alabama

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Boundary Layer Flow
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Geometry
  • Heat Transfer
  • Mechanics
  • Pressure Gradients
  • Surface Roughness
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbines
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Wind Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

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