Advances in Laminar Turbulent Transition Modelling (Les avancees dans la modelisation de la transition laminaire turbulente)

Abstract

Accurate modeling of the laminar-turbulent transition process remains a fundamental issue for the detailed description of the flow around wings, aircraft bodies and control surfaces, as well as for prediction of air vehicles drag, control surfaces effectiveness, and aerodynamic noise generation. AGARD/FDP Lecture Series have been held at the VKI on flow stability and transition in 1984 and 1993 The purpose of this RTO-AVT/VKI Lecture Series proceedings is to revisit the subject in view of the latest advances made in these last fourteen years and their potential on aircraft design, specially taking into account the increased capabilities in numerical simulations and in nonintrusive optical measurement techniques, allowing detailed use of DNS data or of experimental data to understand more deeply the turbulent transition mechanisms, as a necessary prerequisite for a more accurate modeling. The covered topics include a broad view of stability theory and different transition phenomena and scenarios. Subjects include receptivity of boundary layer to disturbances, by-pass mechanisms which anticipate transition, growth of 3D instabilities and their breakdown mechanisms, progress in parabolized Navier Stokes methods, and transition prediction and control.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA639911

Entities

Organizations

  • NATO Science and Technology Organization

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aerodynamic Noise
  • Aircraft Design
  • Aircrafts
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Control Surfaces
  • Department Of Defense
  • Eastern Europe
  • Experimental Data
  • Information Systems
  • Measurement
  • National Security
  • Simulations
  • Surfaces
  • Transitions
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
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