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A note on the appearance of wave-packets in steady-state triple-deck solutions of supersonic flow past a compression corner

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2022

D. Exposito*
Affiliation:
School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT 2612, Australia
S.L. Gai
Affiliation:
School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT 2612, Australia
A.J. Neely
Affiliation:
School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT 2612, Australia
*
†Email address for correspondence: dieexbr17@gmail.com

Abstract

This study is an attempt at solving steady-state triple-deck equations using the method of Bos & Ruban (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A, vol. 358, issue 1777, 2000, pp. 3063–3073) for supersonic flow past a compression corner. This was motivated by the fact that in their above paper, they show solutions for scale angles up to 8, the highest obtained so far in the literature. However, we encountered a stationary wave-packet at the corner for scale angles 1.82 and 1.96, depending on the values of stretching factors. Our solutions are then compared with the steady-state solutions produced using the method of Logue, Gajjar & Ruban (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, vol. 372, issue 2020, 2014, 20130342), which do not show such wave-packets. These wave-packets do not appear to be the result of flow instability, as flow instabilities should only appear with unsteady equations (Cassel, Ruban & Walker, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 300, 1995, pp. 265–285). It is therefore suggested that the method of Bos & Ruban (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A, vol. 358, issue 1777, 2000, pp. 3063–3073) produces these spurious wave-packets as a consequence of their numerical method. This has important implications in the interpretation of triple-deck solutions.

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Figure 1. Triple-deck structure of a boundary layer facing a compression corner of physical angle $\alpha ^*$.

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Figure 2. (a) Shear stress for scale angle 1.5 by the BR method with three grids (blue, $I = 101$, J = $51$; red, $I = 201$, $J = 101$; green, $I = 401$, $J = 201$). (b) Shear-stress for scale angle $3.0$ by the method of Logue with three grids (blue, $N_x = 201$, $N_y = 31$; red, $N_x = 401$, $N_y = 51$; green, $N_x = 601$, $N_y = 101$). Results are identical for all grids, thus only the last (green) colour is visible.

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Figure 3. (a) Shear stress and (b) pressure distributions for scale angles $\alpha = 1.0, \ldots, 3.0$ in 0.5 increments from blue to red. Present calculations with the BR method (continuous lines, $I=201$, $J = 101$, $a = b = 10$) and solutions obtained with the Logue method (discontinuous lines, $N_x = 401$, $N_y = 51$, $a = 5$).

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Figure 4. (a) Shear stress and (b) pressure distributions for scale angle $\alpha = 1.82$, showing a steady wave-packet at the corner. Present calculations with the BR method (blue line, $I=201$, $J = 101$, $a = b = 5$) and solutions obtained with the Logue method (red line, $N_x = 401$, $N_y = 51$, $a = 5$).

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Figure 5. (a) Shear stress and (b) pressure distributions for scale angle $\alpha = 1.96$, showing a steady wave-packet at the corner. Present calculations with the BR method (blue line, $I=201$, $J = 101$, $a = b = 5$) and solutions obtained with the Logue method (red line, $N_x = 401$, $N_y = 51$, $a = 5$).

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Figure 6. (a) Shear stress and (b) pressure distributions for scale angle $\alpha = 3.0$. Present calculations with the BR method (blue line, $I=201$, $J = 101$, $a = b = 10$) and solutions obtained with the Logue method (red line, $N_x = 401$, $N_y = 51$, $a = 5$).

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Figure 7. Shear-stress at the corner for scale angle 2 and mesh $I = 201$, $J = 101$ (blue), and mesh $I = 401$, $J =201$ (red).

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Figure 8. Spectrum of the shear-stress for scale angles (a) 2 and (b) 3. Black, Logue method with $N_x = 401$, $N_y = 51$; blue, BS method with $I = 101$, $J = 51$; red, BR method with $I = 201$, $J = 101$; green, BR method with $I = 301$, $J = 151$. Here, $N$ is the number of elements within the region $x \in [-20,20]$.

Exposito et al. Supplementary Movie 1

Shear-stress distribution with the Bos-Ruban Method for scale angle 2 with I = 201, J = 101, a = b = 10.

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Exposito et al. Supplementary Movie 2

Shear-stress distribution with the Bos-Ruban Method for scale angle 3 with I = 201, J = 101, a = b = 10.

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