Characterization of Transitional, High-Enthalpy Boundary Layers on a Blunted Cone. Part II: FLDI and Higher Order Spectral Analysis

Hameed, Ahsan; Parziale, Nick J.; Paquin, Laura A.; Laurence, Stuart J.; Yu, Wesley M.; Austin, Joanna

doi:10.2514/6.2023-0288

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“…From a design perspective, they not only determine the onset of turbulent structures but also control the three-dimensional layout of hot streaks on a vehicle (see Sivasubramanian & Fasel 2015;Hader & Fasel 2019;Hader, Leinemann & Fasel 2020). To date, aside from the authors' own work (see Hameed et al 2023;Paquin et al 2023a), very few experimental studies have investigated nonlinear breakdown at flight-relevant enthalpies. In this section, we assess the extent of nonlinear interaction associated with boundary-layer phenomena using cross-bicoherence.…”

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Time-resolved wave packet development in highly cooled hypersonic boundary layers

Paquin,

Hameed,

Parziale

et al. 2024

J. Fluid Mech.

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Boundary-layer disturbances are analysed on a $5^{\circ }$ half-angle blunted cone in Mach 5, high-enthalpy flow ( $h_0 = 9\ {\rm MJ}\ {\rm kg}^{-1}$ ) with a low wall-to-edge temperature ratio, $T_w/T_e = 0.18$ . Schlieren and focused laser differential interferometry (FLDI) are utilized to assess the structures and frequency content associated with disturbances. Wave packets are identified from bursts of modal content on time-resolved spectrograms. Bandpass filtering, proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) and space–time POD are then applied to the schlieren data. Bandpass filtering suggests the presence of wave packet dispersion and elongation indicative of slow-acoustic-wave synchronization. Modal reconstruction techniques indicate the radiation of content outside the boundary layer and distinct orientation changes within disturbances, potentially the first experimental evidence of the supersonic-mode instability in such a flow field. Cross-bicoherence computations are carried out for discrete time segments of data from both schlieren and FLDI data. They demonstrate that the most dominant nonlinear interactions are the fundamental–first-harmonic and the fundamental–low-frequency interactions.

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