Affiliation:
1. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras , Chennai, India
Abstract
The unsteady three-dimensional separated flow on a wall induced by a square protrusion (approximately twice the local boundary layer thickness in width and height), and its control by means of passive suction through holes, is investigated using wind tunnel experiments at Mach 2.87. The baseline flow without any control was characterized and compared against the cases with bleed. A bow-shaped separation line on the wall with a mid-span separation length of 5.57δ from protrusion face was traced from the oil-flow visualization. The averaged pressure distribution surveyed using static pressure ports placed on the wall has mapped plateau, high-pressure, and low-pressure regions in the separated flow, distinctive to three-dimensional interactions. Ten control configurations were tested with suction holes placed along mid-span in the different pressure regions. Significant spanwise “Mean Reduction in Separation Length” of up to 0.93δ was observed from oil-flow visualization. A comparison of observations from various control configurations suggested that bleeding the flow from the high-pressure region could delay the separation and reduce the bubble size in general. Furthermore, time-resolved Schlieren visualizations have confirmed reduction in both “mid-span separation length” and “shock-intermittent-region” with the introduction of suction in high-pressure region. Fourier and Proper Orthogonal Decomposition analysis done on the Schlieren data has confirmed the presence of low-frequency separation-shock oscillations at Strouhal Numbers of order 10−2, both with and without control. Furthermore, the amplitudes of separation-shock oscillations in the spectrum were reduced with the introduction of suction simultaneously from two holes placed in high- and low-pressure regions.
Funder
Science and Engineering Research Board
Subject
Condensed Matter Physics,Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Mechanics of Materials,Computational Mechanics,Mechanical Engineering
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3 articles.
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