随着临近空间高超声速飞行技术的发展, 预测高超声速边界层转捩位置的需求变得越来越迫切.
由于高超声速实验很难做, 不可能做得很多, 因此像低速飞行器那样的半经验预测方法恐怕很难 …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-0743. vid Direct Numerical
Simulations (DNS) were carried out in order to investigate laminar-turbulent boundary-layer …

Experiments are performed to investigate the effect of nose-tip bluntness on the instability
mechanisms leading to boundary-layer transition on a, the schlieren visualization region is …

To improve scientific knowledge of boundary-layer transition physics on increasingly
complex geometries, the Air Force Research Laboratory/Air Force Office of Scientific …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-2438. vid A self-aligned focusing
schlieren (SAFS) apparatus based on a recently published design is implemented for the …

High-speed laminar-to-turbulent transition over blunt bodies is relevant to a variety of
aerodynamic applications. Experiments have observed that beyond a critical value of the …

Experiments were performed in the low-enthalpy AFRL Mach 6 Ludwieg Tube to investigate
the effects of surface temperature on hypersonic boundary layer transition. The test article for …

High-speed boundary-layer transition is extremely sensitive to the free-stream disturbances
which are often uncertain. This uncertainty compromises predictions of models and …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-1578. vid This study explores the
instability waves occuring at Mach 8 on a slender cone with an axial slice that is followed by …

The effect of a contraction on the flow in a supersonic nozzle is investigated, and
improvements are made to provide an accurate asymptotic solution of transonic flow. Owing …