Turbulent Shear Layers in Supersonic Flow

Turbulent Shear Layers in Supersonic Flow

Author: Alexander J. Smits

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-05-11

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0387263055

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A good understanding of turbulent compressible flows is essential to the design and operation of high-speed vehicles. Such flows occur, for example, in the external flow over the surfaces of supersonic aircraft, and in the internal flow through the engines. Our ability to predict the aerodynamic lift, drag, propulsion and maneuverability of high-speed vehicles is crucially dependent on our knowledge of turbulent shear layers, and our understanding of their behavior in the presence of shock waves and regions of changing pressure. Turbulent Shear Layers in Supersonic Flow provides a comprehensive introduction to the field, and helps provide a basis for future work in this area. Wherever possible we use the available experimental work, and the results from numerical simulations to illustrate and develop a physical understanding of turbulent compressible flows.


Turbulent Shear-Layer/Shock-Wave Interactions

Turbulent Shear-Layer/Shock-Wave Interactions

Author: J. Delery

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-08

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 3642827705

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It was on a proposal of the late Professor Maurice Roy, member of the French Academy of Sciences, that in 1982, the General Assembly of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics decided to sponsor a symposium on Turbulent Shear-Layer/Shock-Wave Interactions. This sympo sium might be arranged in Paris -or in its immediate vicinity-during the year 1985. Upon request of Professor Robert Legendre, member of the French Academy of Sciences, the organization of the symposium might be provided by the Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales (ONERA). The request was very favorably received by Monsieur l'Ingenieur General Andre Auriol, then General Director of ONERA. The subject of interactions between shock-waves and turbulent dissipative layers is of considerable importance for many practical devices and has a wide range of engineering applications. Such phenomena occur almost inevitably in any transonic or supersonic flow and the subject has given rise to an important research effort since the advent of high speed fluid mechanics, more than forty years ago. However, with the coming of age of modern computers and the development of new sophisticated measurement techniques, considerable progress has been made in the field over the past fifteen years. The aim of the symposium was to provide an updated status of the research effort devoted to shear layer/shock-wave interactions and to present the most significant results obtained recently.


Effects of Initial Conditions on the Development of Supersonic Turbulent Free Shear Layers

Effects of Initial Conditions on the Development of Supersonic Turbulent Free Shear Layers

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Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13:

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A start has been made on studying the effects of initial conditions on the development of supersonic turbulent shear layers. The shear layer model and its air supply system have been designed and constructed. Tuning of the air supply control system as well as basic hardware validation were performed. Most of the required instrumentation has been designed and built. Pitot pressure measurements of the undisturbed shear layer have been taken and documented, these results were used as a baseline for the comparison of cases with shock wave impingement. Two types of disturbance have been tested; those generated by shock wave/boundary layer interaction; and those caused by shock wave/shear layer interaction. In the preliminary testing, pitot pressure measurements for the shear layer with disturbance were made only at two streamwise stations. At the last measurement station, the shear layer thickness increases substantially when shock wave/boundary layer interaction occurs upstream of the nozzle lip. Qualitatively, the results indicate that the spreading rate can be enhanced using planar shock wave impingement. Keywords: Supersonic combustion; Scramjet engines.


Compressibility, Turbulence and High Speed Flow

Compressibility, Turbulence and High Speed Flow

Author: Thomas B. Gatski

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 012397318X

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Compressibility, Turbulence and High Speed Flow introduces the reader to the field of compressible turbulence and compressible turbulent flows across a broad speed range, through a unique complimentary treatment of both the theoretical foundations and the measurement and analysis tools currently used. The book provides the reader with the necessary background and current trends in the theoretical and experimental aspects of compressible turbulent flows and compressible turbulence. Detailed derivations of the pertinent equations describing the motion of such turbulent flows is provided and an extensive discussion of the various approaches used in predicting both free shear and wall bounded flows is presented. Experimental measurement techniques common to the compressible flow regime are introduced with particular emphasis on the unique challenges presented by high speed flows. Both experimental and numerical simulation work is supplied throughout to provide the reader with an overall perspective of current trends. An introduction to current techniques in compressible turbulent flow analysis An approach that enables engineers to identify and solve complex compressible flow challenges Prediction methodologies, including the Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) method, scale filtered methods and direct numerical simulation (DNS) Current strategies focusing on compressible flow control


Physical and Computational Aspects of Convective Heat Transfer

Physical and Computational Aspects of Convective Heat Transfer

Author: T. Cebeci

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-18

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 366202411X

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This volume is concerned with the transport of thermal energy in flows of practical significance. The temperature distributions which result from convective heat transfer, in contrast to those associated with radiation heat transfer and conduction in solids, are related to velocity characteristics and we have included sufficient information of momentum transfer to make the book self-contained. This is readily achieved because of the close relation ship between the equations which represent conservation of momentum and energy: it is very desirable since convective heat transfer involves flows with large temperature differences, where the equations are coupled through an equation of state, as well as flows with small temperature differences where the energy equation is dependent on the momentum equation but the momentum equation is assumed independent of the energy equation. The equations which represent the conservation of scalar properties, including thermal energy, species concentration and particle number density can be identical in form and solutions obtained in terms of one dependent variable can represent those of another. Thus, although the discussion and arguments of this book are expressed in terms of heat transfer, they are relevant to problems of mass and particle transport. Care is required, however, in making use of these analogies since, for example, identical boundary conditions are not usually achieved in practice and mass transfer can involve more than one dependent variable.