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Volume 9, 2017
Progress in Flight Physics
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| Page(s) | 497 - 516 | |
| Section | Stability, transition, and turbulence | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eucass/2016090497 | |
| Published online | 20 June 2017 | |
Free transition on a slender cone in a quiet and a conventional wind tunnel and the effect of ultrasonically absorptive materials
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German Aerospace Center (DLR) Supersonic and Hypersonic Technology Department Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology Linder Höhe, Köln 51147, Germany
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School of Aeronautics and Astronautics Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-1282, USA
Transition from laminar to turbulent hypersonic boundary layers is the topic of several research projects world-wide. Most experimental work is done in conventional wind tunnels, although their free stream turbulence does not match free flight conditions and has a significant in§uence onto the transition process. Experiments performed with the same 3 degree half angle cone in a conventional and a quiet wind tunnel at Mach 6 justify this approach. The formation, amplification, and decay of the second (Mack) modes is compared based on high-frequency pressure measurements. In addition, damping of these modes with ultrasonically absorptive surfaces was tested.
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