An experimental campaign was conducted on a 7-degree half-angle cone in the NASA Langley Research Center 20-Inch Mach 6 Wind Tunnel to examine the influence of arrays of regularly spaced roughness elements on instability growth and transition. The primary element shape was a pair of elliptical planform ramps that were inclined at equal and opposite angles with respect to the local streamwise direction. The element shapes were designed to induce transient growth disturbances that would lead to sustained azimuthal modulation of the boundary layer flow while limiting the nearfield disturbances to avoid an immediate, i.e., effective tripping of the boundary layer. The bulk of the run matrix consisted of testing different element height sat free stream unit Reynolds numbers ranging from 9.8 to 13.1 million per meter. Other element shapes previously designed for tripping hypersonic boundary layers were also implemented. The model was instrumented with surface mounted Kulite® and PCB® pressure transducers and thermocouples. Spectra from the PCBs® indicated clear suppression of the second-mode instability; however, neither the PCB® spectra nor the heat transfer data presented strong evidence for delayed turbulent flow. Complementary stability computations likewise demonstrated second-mode reduction, particularly just downstream of the roughness, but also revealed a rise in first mode (streak-instability) amplitudes from the baseline that was likely responsible for the earlier transition observed for taller roughness cases.
Hypersonic Second Mode Instability Response to Shaped Roughness
AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (2021 AIAA SciTech Forum) ; 2021 ; Virtual, US
2021-01-04
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English
Wind tunnels , Fluid Mechanics And Thermodynamics , Laminar to turbulent transition , Pressure transducers , Boundarry Layer Transition , Hypersonics , Stagnation pressure , Freestream velocity , Power spectral density , Ground Test , Flow conditions , NASA Langley Research Center , Surface thermocouples , Heat transfer
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