《Effect of disturbances at inlet on hypersonic boundary layer transition on a blunt cone at small angle of attack》.pdfVIP

Appl. Math. Mech. -Engl. Ed. 31(5), 535–544 (2010) Applied Mathematics DOI 10.1007/s10483-010-0501-z and Mechanics c Shanghai University and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 (English Edition) Effect of disturbances at inlet on hypersonic boundary layer transition on a blunt cone at small angle of attack∗ Jian-xin LIU (), Ji-sheng LUO () (Department of Mechanics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China) (Contributed by Ji-sheng LUO) Abstract To investigate the effect of different disturbances in the upstream, we present numerical simulation of transition for a hypersonic boundary layer on a 5-degree half-angle blunt cone in a freestream with Mach number 6 at 1-degree angle of attack. Evolution of small disturbances is simulated to compare with the linear stability theory (LST), indi- cating that LST can provide a good prediction on the growth rate of the disturbance. The effect of different disturbances on transition is investigated. Transition onset distributions along the azimuthal direction are obtained with two groups of disturbances of different frequencies. It shows that transition onset is relevant to frequencies and amplitudes of the disturbances at the inlet, and is decided by the amplitudes of most unstable waves at the inlet. According to the characteristics of environmental disturbances in most wind tunnels, we explain why transition occurs leeside-forward and windside-aft over a circular cone at an angle of attack. Moreover, the indentation phenomenon in the transition curve on the leewar