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JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 785, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2015.668
Keywords
aerodynamics; high-speed flow; wakes
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- Foster and Coco Stanback STEM Fellowship
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The wake behind a circular cylinder in Mach 4 flow is examined experimentally in the Reynolds number range 2 x 10(4) to 5 x 10(5). Periodic oscillations of the sliplines in the wake are observed. The Strouhal number of the oscillations based on the diameter of the cylinder is found to increase monotonically from 0.30 to 0.50 with increasing Reynolds number. If the Strouhal number is formed using the length of the sliplines, however, it has a constant value of approximately 0.48 for all Reynolds numbers studied. This scaling indicates that the oscillations in supersonic flow are likely driven by acoustic signals propagating back and forth through the subsonic region between the separation points on the cylinder and the neck where the sliplines converge, unlike in subsonic flow where oscillations are caused by vortices shed from the cylinder surface.
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