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The interactive breakdown in supersonic ramp flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

F. T. Smith  and
A. Farid Khorrami
F. T. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
A. Farid Khorrami
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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Abstract

The separating flow induced on a ramp under a supersonic main stream is discussed, for high Reynolds numbers, according to the interactive-boundary-layer approach. There are two principal motivations for the study, apart from the recent general upsurge of interest in compressible boundary-layer separation and stall. The first is the need for more progress to be made in the numerical determination of strongly reversed flows than has proved possible in computations hitherto. This is tackled by means of a new computational scheme based in effect on a global Newton iteration procedure but coupled with linearized shooting, second-order accurate windward differencing and linear multi-sweeping. The specific case addressed is the triple-deck version for steady laminar two-dimensional motion, although the present scheme, like the theory described below, also has broader application, for example to subsonic, hypersonic and/or unsteady interactive flows. The second motivation is to compare closely with the recent theoretical prediction (Smith 1988a) of a local breakdown or stall occurring in any interactive boundary-layer solution at a finite value of the controlling parameter, a say, within the reversed-flow region; the breakdown produces a large adverse pressure gradient and minimum negative surface shear locally. The first quantitative comparisons are made between the theory and computational results, derived in this work at values of a, here the scaled ramp angle, greater than those obtainable before, but with a fixed outer boundary. The agreement, while not complete, seems to prove fairly affirmative overall and tends to support the suggestion (in Smith 1988a) that, contrary to most earlier expectations, in general there is a finite upper limit on the extent to which the interacting boundary-layer approach can be taken on its own. A similar conclusion holds for unsteady interactive boundary layers concerning a finite-time breakdown (Smith 19886) and boundary-layer transition, and in the present context the local nonlinear breakdown provides an explanation for the severe computational difficulties encountered previously as well as for a form of airfoil stall.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 224 , March 1991 , pp. 197 - 215
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© 1991 Cambridge University Press

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