Two-component and stereoscopic particle image velocimetry measurements have been acquired in the streamwise plane for supersonic flow over a rectangular cavity of variable width, peering over the sidewall lip to view the depths of the cavity. The data reveal the turbulent shear layer over the cavity and the recirculation region within it. The mean position of the recirculation region was found to be a function of the length-to-width ratio of the cavity, as was the turbulence intensity within both the shear layer and the recirculation region. Compressibility effects were observed in which turbulence levels dropped, and the shear layer thickness decreased as the Mach number was raised from 1.5 to 2.0 and 2.5. Supplemental measurements in the crossplane and the planform view suggest that zones of high turbulence were affixed to each sidewall centered on the cavity lip, with a strip of turbulence stretched out across the cavity shear layer for which the intensity was a function of the length-to-width ratio. These sidewall features are attributed to spillage, which is greatly reduced for the narrowest cavity. Such effects cannot be found in experiments lacking finite spanwise extent.


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    Title :

    Supersonic Flow over a Finite-Width Rectangular Cavity



    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 53 , 2 ; 296-310


    Publication date :

    2014-09-12


    Size :

    15 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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