Thermoacoustic effects in high-speed compressible transitional and turbulent boundary layers

Ritos, Konstantinos and Kokkinakis, Ioannis W. and Drikakis, Dimitris and Spottswood, Stephen M.; (2017) Thermoacoustic effects in high-speed compressible transitional and turbulent boundary layers. In: 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA, USA. ISBN 9781624104473 (https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2017-0745)

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Abstract

A numerical investigation of the thermal and acoustic effects in high-speed compressible flows is presented. Two case studies are considered: i) transition to turbulence in supersonic flows over a flat plate, and ii) supersonic shock wave turbulent boundary layer interaction (SWTBLI) over a compression ramp. Implicit Large Eddy Simulations (iLES) are performed using the second and fifth order Monotone-Upstream Central Scheme for Conservation Laws (MUSCL) and the ninth order Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory (WENO) schemes. The aim of this study is twofold: i) to examine the acoustic and thermal effects associated with transitional and turbulent boundary layers, particularly in the near wall region; ii) to investigate the effects of numerical accuracy on acoustic and thermal loading. The results are compared with theoretical models, Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) and experiments.