Experimental study of the effect of nose bluntness on hypersonic boundary-layer transition

Abstract

It is proposed to perform wind tunnel experiments to study the effect of nose bluntness on hypersonic boundary-layer transition on the frustum of a 7-degree cone. The proposed experiments will be conducted in the Mach 5 Ludwieg Tube at the University of Arizona, a conventional facility with a planned quiet nozzle upgrade that will enable direct comparison between the results in conventional and quiet flows. These experiments represent a follow-up to the experiments of Stetson (1983) and Jewell et al. (2018) and the computations of Paredes et al. (2019b) and Hartman et al. (2020).

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Mar 07, 2023
Source ID
FA95502110363

Entities

People

  • Stuart A. Craig

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • United States Air Force
  • University of Arizona

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Research Science/Academic Research

Technology Areas

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