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A local scattering approach for the effects of abrupt changes on boundary-layer instability and transition: a finite-Reynolds-number formulation for isolated distortions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2017

Zhangfeng Huang  and
Xuesong Wu Open the ORCID record for Xuesong Wu [Opens in a new window]
Zhangfeng Huang
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China State Key Laboratory of Aerodynamics, China Aerodynamic Research and Development Center, Mianyang Sichuan, 621000, China
Xuesong Wu*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, 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

We investigate the influence of abrupt changes on boundary-layer instability and transition. Such changes can take different forms including a local porous wall, suction/injection and surface roughness as well as junctions between rigid and porous walls. They may modify the boundary conditions and/or the mean flow, and their effects on transition have usually been assessed by performing stability analysis for the modified base flow and/or boundary conditions. However, such a conventional local linear stability theory (LST) becomes invalid if the change occurs over a relatively short scale comparable with, or even shorter than, the characteristic wavelength of the instability. In this case, the influence on transition is through scattering with the abrupt change acting as a local scatter, that is, an instability mode propagating through the region of abrupt change is scattered by the strong streamwise inhomogeneity to acquire a different amplitude. A local scattering approach (LSA) should be formulated instead, in which a transmission coefficient, defined as the ratio of the amplitude of the instability wave after the scatter to that before, is introduced to characterize the effect on instability and transition. In the present study, we present a finite-Reynolds-number formulation of LSA for isolated changes including a rigid plate interspersed by a local porous panel and a wall suction through a narrow slot. When the weak non-parallelism of the unperturbed base flow is ignored, the local scattering problem can be cast as an eigenvalue problem, in which the transmission coefficient appears as the eigenvalue. We also improved the method to take into account the non-parallelism of the unperturbed base flow, where it is found that the weak non-parallelism has a rather minor effect. The general formulation is specialized to two-dimensional Tollmien–Schlichting (T–S) waves. The resulting eigenvalue problem is solved, and full direct numerical simulations (DNS) are performed to verify some of the predictions by LSA. A parametric study indicates that conventional LST is valid only when the change is sufficiently gradual, and becomes either inaccurate or invalid when the scale of the local distortion is short. A local porous panel enhances T–S waves, while a local suction with a moderate mass flux significantly inhibits T–S waves. In the latter case, a comprehensive comparison is made between the theoretical predictions and experimental data, and a satisfactory quantitative agreement was observed.

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Boundary Layers: Boundary layer stability Low-Reynolds-number flows: Porous media Waves/Free-surface Flows: Wave scattering
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 822 , 10 July 2017 , pp. 444 - 483
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