An initial review of the roughness data from the BOLT II flight is provided. The BOLT II roughness experiment was designed to investigate discrete trips in flight based on the diamond configuration, which has been shown to be an efficient vortex generator and boundary layer trip from extensive ground-based testing. There were three trip locations chosen for the flight test and their size (height and width) were tailored to the local boundary layer thickness, but all three were expected to trip at the same time or flight condition. Details about the flight vehicle design, instrumentation, and best estimated trajectory are discussed. The present paper is limited to only a review and analysis of the thermocouple data. Boundary layer transition onset times are derived from the thermocouple analysis, thus allowing an initial assessment of the performance of these discrete trips. Since the three trips were sized to trip the boundary layer at the same time, based on a previous wind tunnel study, the present analysis indicates that they performed as expected.


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    Title :

    BOLT II Roughness-Side Flight Results


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    Conference:

    AIAA SciTech23 ; 2023 ; National Harbor, MD, US


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


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    Language :

    English




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