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Stability of compressible boundary layers
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Nayfeh, Ali H. |
| Copyright Year | 1989 |
| Description | The stability of compressible 2-D and 3-D boundary layers is reviewed. The stability of 2-D compressible flows differs from that of incompressible flows in two important features: There is more than one mode of instability contributing to the growth of disturbances in supersonic laminar boundary layers and the most unstable first mode wave is 3-D. Whereas viscosity has a destabilizing effect on incompressible flows, it is stabilizing for high supersonic Mach numbers. Whereas cooling stabilizes first mode waves, it destabilizes second mode waves. However, second order waves can be stabilized by suction and favorable pressure gradients. The influence of the nonparallelism on the spatial growth rate of disturbances is evaluated. The growth rate depends on the flow variable as well as the distance from the body. Floquet theory is used to investigate the subharmonic secondary instability. |
| File Size | 2566075 |
| Page Count | 59 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19890011582 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6p032v57 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1989-03-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aerodynamics Viscosity Suction Three Dimensional Flow Computational Fluid Dynamics Reynolds Number Floquet Theorem Boundary Layer Stability Two Dimensional Flow Compressible Flow Mach Number Pressure Gradients Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |