The Investigation of Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interactions Using Fast Pressure Sensitive Paint and Surface Stress Sensitive Film Measurement Techniques

Author(s):  
Mark R. Woike ◽  
David O. Davis ◽  
Michelle M. Clem ◽  
James Crafton
Aerospace ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Carson L. Running ◽  
Thomas J. Juliano

The global surface pressure was measured on a 7° half-angle circular cone/flare model at a nominally zero angle of attack using pressure-sensitive paint (PSP). These experiments were conducted to illustrate fast PSP’s usefulness and effectiveness at measuring the unsteady structures inherent to hypersonic shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions (SWBLIs). Mean and fluctuating surface pressure was measured with a temperature-corrected, high-frequency-response (≈10 kHz) anodized-aluminum pressure-sensitive paint (AA-PSP) allowing for novel, global calculations of skewness and coherence. These analyses complement traditional SWBLI data-reduction methodologies by providing high-spatial-resolution measurements of the mean and fluctuating locations of the shock feet, as well as the frequency-dependent measure of the relationship between characteristic flow features. The skewness indicated the mean locations of the separation and reattachment shock feet as well as their fluctuations over the course of the test. The coherence indicated that the separation and reattachment shock feet fluctuate about their mean location at the same frequency as one another, but 180 degrees out of phase. This results in a large-scale ‘breathing motion’ of the separated region characteristic of large separation bubbles. These experimental findings validate the usefulness of AA-PSP, and associated data-reduction methodologies, to provide global physical insights of unsteady SWBLI surface behavior in the hypersonic flow regime. Similar methodologies can be incorporated in future experiments to investigate complex and novel SWBLIs.


2004 ◽  
Vol 108 (1087) ◽  
pp. 483-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Couldrick ◽  
S. L. Gai ◽  
J. F. Milthorpe ◽  
K. Shankar

AbstractAn investigation of active control of the swept shock wave/boundary-layer interaction using ‘smart’ flap actuators is presented. The actuators are manufactured by bonding piezoelectric material to an inert substrate to control the bLeed/suction rate through a plenum chamber. The cavity provides communication of signals across the shock, allowing rapid thickening of the boundary layer approaching the shock. This splits the shock foot into a series of weaker shocks forming a lambda structure, thus reducing wave drag. Active control allows optimisation of the unimorph deflection, hence rate of mass transfer.In this paper, results of the interaction using pressure sensitive paint (PSP) are emphasised. It is shown that the use of PSP, in conjunction with discrete pressure data, enables the main features of the interaction to be observed when the actuators are subject to different deflections.


AIAA Journal ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 2293-2301
Author(s):  
R. Benay ◽  
P. Berthouze ◽  
R. Bur

AIAA Journal ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 985-995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic Thivet ◽  
Doyle D. Knight ◽  
Alexander A. Zheltovodov ◽  
Alexander I. Maksimov

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Giovanni Schöneich ◽  
Thomas J. Whalen ◽  
Stuart J. Laurence ◽  
Bryson T. Sullivan ◽  
Daniel J. Bodony ◽  
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