How nose bluntness suppresses second-mode growth

Ionization and dissociation effects on boundary-layer stability

“…Such an interpretation was based on the mathematical nature of the perturbation equations, but lacked the physical mechanism behind the nature of such equations. This new perspective of the second mode has subsequently been used by Sakakeeny, Batista & Kuehl (2019) to suggest why blunt-nose configurations stabilize it, and by to explore control methodologies to damp and stabilize it.…”