Time-resolved particle image velocimetry was conducted at 40 kHz using a pulse-burst laser in the supersonic wake of a wall-mounted hemisphere. Velocity fields suggest a recirculation region with two lobes, in which flow moves away from the wall near the centerline and recirculates back toward the hemisphere off the centerline, contrary to transonic configurations. Spatio-temporal cross-correlations and conditional ensemble averages relate the characteristic behavior of the unsteady shock motion to the flapping of the shear layer. At Mach 1.5, oblique shocks develop, associated with vortical structures in the shear layer and convect downstream in tandem; a weak periodicity is observed. Shock motion at Mach 2.0 appears somewhat different, wherein multiple weak disturbances propagate from shear-layer turbulent structures to form an oblique shock that ripples as these vortices pass by. Bifurcated shock feet coalesce and break apart without evident periodicity. Power spectra show a preferred frequency of shear-layer flapping and shock motion for Mach 1.5, but at Mach 2.0, a weak preferred frequency at the same Strouhal number of 0.32 is found only for oblique shock motion and not shear-layer unsteadiness.


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    Title :

    Time-Resolved Planar Velocimetry of the Supersonic Wake of a Wall-Mounted Hemisphere


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 57 , 4 ; 1383-1399


    Publication date :

    2019-01-17


    Size :

    17 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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