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Generation of first Mack modes in supersonic boundary layers by slow acoustic waves interacting with streamwise isolated wall roughness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2020

Yinhui Liu Open the ORCID record for Yinhui Liu [Opens in a new window] ,
Ming Dong Open the ORCID record for Ming Dong [Opens in a new window]  and
Xuesong Wu Open the ORCID record for Xuesong Wu [Opens in a new window]
Yinhui Liu
Affiliation:
Laboratory of High-speed Aerodynamics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, PR China
Ming Dong
Affiliation:
Laboratory of High-speed Aerodynamics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, PR China
Xuesong Wu*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of High-speed Aerodynamics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, PR China Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, 180 Queen’s Gate, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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†Email address for correspondence: x.wu@ic.ac.uk
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Abstract

This paper investigates the receptivity of a supersonic boundary layer to slow acoustic waves whose characteristic frequency and wavelength are on the triple-deck scales, and the phase speed is thus asymptotically small. Acoustic waves on these scales are of special importance as they have the interesting property that a perturbation with a magnitude of $O(\unicode[STIX]{x1D716}_{u})$ in the free stream generates much larger, $O(\unicode[STIX]{x1D700}_{u}R^{1/8})$, velocity fluctuations inside the boundary layer, where $R$ is the Reynolds number based on the distance to the leading edge. Their interaction with streamwise localized roughness elements, leading to stronger receptivity, is studied using triple-deck theory and direct numerical simulations (DNS). The receptivity coefficient, defined as the ratio of the streamwise-velocity amplitude of the instability mode excited to that of the incident free-stream acoustic wave, serves to characterize receptivity efficiency. Its dependence on the roughness width, the Reynolds number $R$, the free-stream Mach number $M$ and the incident angle of the acoustic wave is examined. The theoretical predictions, obtained assuming $R\gg 1$, are found to be in quantitative agreement with the DNS results at moderate values of $R$ when the roughness elements are located near the lower branch of the instability. The receptivity is sensitive to the incident angle (or the phase speed) of the acoustic wave, being highly effective within a small range of angles close to $\cos ^{-1}(1/M)$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x03C0}+\cos ^{-1}(1/M)$ for downstream and upstream propagating sound waves, respectively. The amplitude of the instability mode excited is proportional to the streamwise-velocity amplitude of the acoustic signature inside the boundary layer, and scales with the roughness height $h^{\ast }$ as $(h^{\ast }/\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}^{\ast })R^{1/4}$, where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}^{\ast }$ is the boundary-layer thickness.

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Boundary Layers: Boundary layer receptivity Instability: Transition to turbulence Boundary Layers: Boundary layer stability
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 888 , 10 April 2020 , A10
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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