In the aerodynamic design of the National EXperimental Transport (NEXST) program, a supersonic natural laminar flow (NLF) wing design concept was originally developed. Before the flight test of the NEXST-1 airplane, more detailed transition analysis should be performed in order to validate the NLF wing effect. Therefore, the JAXA-ONERA cooperative research project started in April 2000, because ONERA had great ability of analyzing transition phenomena and JAXA had some experiment transition data in supersonic flow. In the transition anlysis on the sharp cone with a half angle of 5 degrees, the nose cone, and the NLF wing of the NEXST-1 airplane, good cross validation of both ONERA's and JAXA 's eN codes was obtained. There was also high correlation between the experimental results in ONERA's continuous circuit-flow type supersonic wind vessel and both laboratories' predictions under the assumption of a critical transition N value of 6. In addition, a risk of transition due to attachment-line contamination was predicted at inner wing, using the well-known Poll's criterion.
Experimental and Numerical Research on Boundary Layer Transition Analysis at Supersonic Speed: JAXA-ONERA Cooperative Research Project
2009
110 pages
Report
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English
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