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Planar shock-wave boundary-layer interaction

Semi-confined Flows

Underlying Flow Regime 3-32

Evaluation

Comparison of CFD Calculations with Experiments

LES versus experiment at shock generator angle of 8 degrees

Velocity fluctuations in a plane parallel to the wall evidence the presence of low and high velocity streaks that populates canonical boundary layers. After the separation (identified by the first dashed line), the size of turbulent structures in the spanwise direction significantly increases and further downstream the turbulence slowly relaxes toward its canonical state. This figure illustrates the fact that the simulation is capable of capturing most of the finest turbulent structures present in a supersonic boundary layer.

Quantitative comparisons in the symmetry plane are shown in Figure 6. The agreement between experiment and simulation is very good in the symmetry plane for the longitudinal velocity except in the separation bubble region. Nevertheless, it is important to mention that this region is very sensitive to the nature of inflow perturbations since a large variability of the results in this area has already been observed in the experiment, the 2006 data differing from the 2007 one, specifically in this region. The agreement with the experiment is also generally satisfactory for the Reynolds shear stress.

Contributed by: Jean-Paul Dussauge — Orange