The results of a seminal experimental study of the effects of bluntness and swallowing length on transition on an 8 deg cone at zero angle of attack in Mach 6 high-Reynolds-number flow are analyzed with the STABL-2D computational fluid dynamics code package. Mean flow solutions and parabolized stability analyses for a total of 11 different nose-tip bluntnesses, ranging from sharp to a 15.24 mm radius, are obtained. For the sharpest cases, the factor at transition is approximately seven; but, as bluntness increases and the calculated swallowing distance lengthens, the computed factor at the experimentally observed transition location drops below the level at which Mack’s second mode would be expected to lead to transition. These results indicate that the dominant instability mechanism for the bluntest cases is not the second mode, and oblique mode analysis also excludes these modes as the dominant instability mechanism.
Boundary-Layer Stability Analysis for Stetson’s Mach 6 Blunt-Cone Experiments
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets ; 54 , 1 ; 258-265
2016-10-18
8 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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