Abstract
This study is an attempt at solving steady-state triple-deck equations using the method of Bos & Ruban (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond.A, vol. 358, issue 1777, 2000, pp. 3063–3073) for supersonic flow past a compression corner. This was motivated by the fact that in their above paper, they show solutions for scale angles up to 8, the highest obtained so far in the literature. However, we encountered a stationary wave-packet at the corner for scale angles 1.82 and 1.96, depending on the values of stretching factors. Our solutions are then compared with the steady-state solutions produced using the method of Logue, Gajjar & Ruban (Phil. Trans. R. Soc.A, vol. 372, issue 2020, 2014, 20130342), which do not show such wave-packets. These wave-packets do not appear to be the result of flow instability, as flow instabilities should only appear with unsteady equations (Cassel, Ruban & Walker,J. Fluid Mech., vol. 300, 1995, pp. 265–285). It is therefore suggested that the method of Bos & Ruban (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond.A, vol. 358, issue 1777, 2000, pp. 3063–3073) produces these spurious wave-packets as a consequence of their numerical method. This has important implications in the interpretation of triple-deck solutions.
Funder
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics,Applied Mathematics
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