Memorias de investigación
Book chapters:
Instability study of the wake behind a discrete roughness element in a hypersonic boundary-layer
Year:2014

Research Areas
  • Fluid mechanics,
  • Aeronautical engineering

Information
Abstract
The linear instability induced by an isolated roughness element in a boundary-layer at Mach 6 has been analysed through spatial BiGlobal and three-dimensional parabolised (PSE-3D) stability analyses. It is important to understand transition in this flow regime since the process can be slower than in incompressible flow and is critical to prediction of local heat loads on next-generation flight vehicles. The results show that the roughness element, with a height of the order of the boundary-layer displacement thickness, generates an convectively unstable wake where different instability modes develop. Furthermore, at this high Mach number, boundary-layer modes develop at high frequencies and are also covered here. Important discrepancies are observed between BiGlobal and PSE-3D predictions, mainly for the roughness-induced wake modes. Results are in qualitative agreement with a full Navier-Stokes receptivity study of the same flow.
International
Si
10.1007/978-3-319-06260-0_14
Book Edition
Book Publishing
Springer
ISBN
978-3-319-06259-4
Series
5980
Book title
Instability and Control of Massively Separated Flows
From page
1
To page
6
Participants
  • Autor: Pedro Paredes Gonzalez UPM
  • Autor: Nicola De Tullio Imperial College Longon
  • Autor: Neil D. Sandham University of Southampton
  • Autor: Vassilios Theofilis . UPM

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Departamento: Mecánica de Fluidos y Propulsión Aeroespacial