Measurements have been made of wall shear stresses in swept interactions of planar shock waves generated by a sharp fin and the two-dimensional turbulent boundary layer on a flat plate. Test conditions were Mach number 3.03, Reynolds number Re e -1.5 X 10 4 , wall temperature near adiabatic, and fin angles of 10 and 16 deg. Measurements were made using the Laser Interferometer Skin Friction (LISF) meter, which optically detects the thickness of an oil film on the test surface. The results show that such measurements are practical in high-speed interacting flows with a repeatability of ± 12% or better. Further, with proper data handling, LISF measurements appear feasible at very high shear levels, which were previously considered unobtainable. Dramatic increases in wall shear were observed in both swept interactions tested. These data are compared with computational Navier-Stokes solutions by Horstman and Knight wherein k-e and algebraic turbulence models were used. Both computations predict the overall measured c/ levels at a = 10 deg but fail to predict some features of the Cf distributions properly. Nomenclature c f = skin friction coefficient based on incoming freestream conditions MO, = incoming freestream Mach number N = number of fringes Po = stagnation pressure of incoming stream, MPa (psia) p w = wall static pressure on flat plate, MPa (psia) /?oo = incoming freestream static pressure, MPa (psia) R = radial distance measured from the fin leading-edge, cm (in.)
ReQ= Reynolds number based on the local, undisturbed boundary-layer momentum thickness 5 = distance measured along surface streamline, mm T aw = adiabatic wall temperature, K T 0 = freestream stagnation temperature, K T w = wall temperature, K u + ,y + = dimensionless wall-wake velocity and height coordinates x,y,z = orthogonal stream wise, normal, and span wise coordinates, respectively, cm a.= angle made by fin with respect to the incoming freestream direction, deg /3 = angle with respect to freestream direction, measured from fin leading edge, deg As = distance from oil-film leading edge to laser spot along surface streamline, mm 5 = local, undisturbed boundary-layer thickness, mm v = oil viscosity, cs II = boundary-layer, wake-strength parameter T W = wall shear stress, N/m 2 Subscripts is = incident shock wave location ps = primary separation line location r = reattachment line location 5-5 = secondary separation line location ui = upstream influence line location