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AEROSPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 142, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ast.2023.108639
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Inward turning inlet; Shock wave/boundary layer interaction; Curved swept compression ramp
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This study investigates the flow phenomenon of ramp shock/boundary layer interaction on supersonic/hypersonic flight vehicles using single-sided and double-sided flow models. The single-sided model focuses on the curved ramp shock/boundary layer interaction near the corner of the inlet, while the double-sided model exposes the coupling mechanism and evolution process near the symmetry plane of the inlet.
When integrated with supersonic/hypersonic flight vehicles the ramp shock/boundary layer interaction occurs in streamline-traced inward-turning inlets exhibit complex three-dimensional characteristic. Two simplified flow models named the single-sided model and the double-sided model were abstracted to investigate the flow phenomenon in this paper. The single-sided model was designed to focus on curved ramp shock/boundary layer interaction near the corner of the inlet while the double-sided model aimed to expose the coupling mechanism and the evolution process near the symmetry plane of the inlet. The separation region of the single-sided model was observed to develop along the leading edge of the three-dimensional compression ramp using oil flow visualisation. It started at the junction of the ramp and the sidewall, spanned the whole test model, and appeared as a 'scimitar' shape with a maximum streamwise length of 0.5880. On the other hand, a symmetry separation pattern was observed in the double-sided model. The separation region was 'crescent-shaped', originated from the junctions of the ramp and two sidewalls, and coalesced at the symmetry plane, inducing a maximum streamwise separation scale of 0.7880 on the symmetry plane. The measured surface pressure distributions showed that the shock wave/boundary layer interactions in the two models behaved similarly around the ramp-sidewall junction. (c) 2023 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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