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XXI International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Warsaw, Poland, August 15-21, 2004

Large - Eddy Simulation of Shock - Wave / Turbulent - Boundary - Layer Interaction

M. S. Loginov (1), N. A. Adams (1), A. A. Zheltovodov (2)
1. Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
2. Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Novosibirsk, Russia


A Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) is conducted to investigate the characteristics of the mean flow and the turbulence structure of the boundary layer along a compression corner. The compression corner has a deflection angle $ \beta = 25^0$, and the mean free-stream Mach number is $M_\infty = 2.95$. The Reynolds number based on the incoming boundary layer thickness is $Re_{\delta 0} = 63560$ in accordance with reference experiments. An analysis of the flow computation shows a good agreement with the experiment in terms of mean quantities (shock position, separation zone length, skin friction and surface pressure distributions) and turbulence characteristics. A mechanism of turbulence amplification in the external flow by travelling compression waves is proposed. The existence of three-dimensional large-scale structures (G\{o}rtler-type vortices) is shown.



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