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boundary layer interaction has been Keywords:- Ramp flow, Shock wave,
Separation, Reattachment, turbulent
analyzed computationally in a two-
boundary layer.
dimensional compression ramps for a
free stream Mach number of 2.85.
interaction between shock waves and progressive rise between the upstream
turbulent boundary layers continue to be of pressure level p0 and the final value p1
great interest to researchers. There is a corresponding to the oblique shock
need for additional research work. Some of equations.
the authors who have extensively studied When the ramp angle α is
the flow field in the ramp flow include: increased (hence the shock strength), the
(Delery (1985) [1]), (Daniel Arnal and upstream influence distance (L0 defined as
J.M. Delery (2004) [2]), (A.B. Oliver et al the distance between the interaction onset
(2007) [3]), (Settles et al (1994) [4]), and and the ramp origin) increases accordingly
(D. W. Kuntz [5]). and a situation can be reached where the
pressure rise is high enough to induce
The investigation described in this separation of the boundary layer (Figure
report was conducted in order to provide 1). In this situation:
detailed physical description of the 1. The ramp upstream influence, hence
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SWTBLIs to improve the capability to upstream influence length L0, has
predict the surface pressure and wall shear considerably increased.
stress for these interactions. The
investigation was conducted using the 2. A first shock associated with separation
CFD code, and thus has produced new forms well upstream of the ramp.
information concerning loss of total
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pressure ratio in the separated zone, which
adversely affects the performance of high
speed aeronautical/aerospace devices.
3. A second shock originates from the
reattachment region on the ramp which
intersects the separation shock at a short
distance from the wall.
II. THEORY
Shock wave turbulent boundary layer p1
p0
interactions are basically two-dimensional
and three-dimensional. 2-D interactions
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include: the ramp flow, the impinging
reflecting shock, and the pressure
α
discontinuity resulting from adaptation to a
higher downstream pressure level. 3-D
interactions include, swept shock boundary L0
layer interaction. In this paper, Ramp flow
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interaction, which corresponds to a control Fig1. The structure of a ramp flow with boundary
surface or an air-intake compression ramp, layer separation [2]
has been considered.
Compression Ramp Flow III. NUMERICAL SIMULATION
The ramp flow interaction occurs Grid generation and boundary conditions
when supersonic flow along a flat plate is
compressed by a wedge or ramp of angle
α. When the ramp angle α is small, the Commercially available CFD software
overall flow structure is not much affected has been used to simulate two-
by the interaction taking place at the ramp dimensional, high-speed, turbulent flow
origin. The main difference is a spreading with air as the fluid for a flow over a
of the wall pressure distribution, the step compression-ramp at free-stream Mach
of the inviscid solution being replaced by a numbers (M0 = 2.85). The flow conditions
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and simulation setups used are given in opposite the viscous wall (isothermal), and
this section. pressure outlet at the outflow. A
convergence criterion for the residuals of
To study the flow-field of the
all equations has been set to (10-6).
interaction, the basic ramp flow geometry
Turbulent Intensity of (5%) and viscosity
used in [3] has been adopted for the
ratio of 5 has been used. Boundary layer
present study, primarily due to the
thickness (δ) computed from simulation at
availability of experimental data. Basic
interaction origin was 25mm.
mesh details of the ramp (200) are shown
in figure 2 with a typical grid distribution
adopted near the corner region.
Table1. Free stream and inflow boundary
Computations were made by using grid to layer data
grid file interpolation technique with three
different grids [Grid 1 (63000 cells), Grid Ramp M∞ T0[K] P0[Pa] δ Re∞[m-1]
2 (87000 cells) and Grid 3 (101500 cells)] [mm]
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80 2.87 280 6.9E+05 26 60.8.106
based implicit solver with upwind second
order discretisation scheme for flow and 120 2.87 280 6.9E+05 26 60.8.106
transport equations was chosen to capture 160 2.85 268 6.9E+05 26 65.6.106
shocks better at cell faces. Convergence
criteria were considered when residuals
have fallen by three orders and
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measurement of shear stress at different
locations converged to four significant
200
240
2.85
2.84
258
262
6.9E+05
6.9E+05
25
23
69.5.106
68.3.106
digits all achieved after 30000 iterations. Table 2. Reference values used in data reduction
first evidence of separation line. The 200 The shear stress distribution parallel to
and 240 corner angles indicate a clear wall and corner surfaces for 80 to 160 is
significant separation. For 200 and 240, the depicted in figures 4. In this case, only the
intersection of separation and reattachment 160 flow show the insipient separation
shocks indicates a slight bend from which condition.
a stronger shock appears due to merging of In figure 5, how the size of the
the two left running shocks. For this type separated region increases with shock
of shock-shock interaction, the reflected strength is plotted for 160 to 240 ramp
wave and slip line are indicated in figure 1. angles. The negative wall shear stress
shows the region of reversed flows and the
idea is as described by the density contour
plots.
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Fig. 3 Plot of density contours near the corner Fig. 6 Skin friction coefficient (200)
region (80-240)
In figure 6, skin friction coefficient (Cf)
computed by Realizable k-ɛ and SST is
compared to experiment. Both models
show larger separation region compared to
the experimental data. SST shows
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separation earlier and reattaches later. R.
k-ɛ is closer to the experiment in the
recovery region
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region and then rises gradually again after
the flow reattaches. The pressure For weaker interaction (figure 8
distribution reveals the large upstream (a)) the turbulence models are in a closer
influence and large streamwise extent of agreement between themselves and to the
the interaction. experiment. However, when the interaction
strength increases (200 and 240), the
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Also the intensity of the SWTBLI can
be characterised by its upstream influence,
which is the upstream distance at which
turbulence models show slightly higher
separation size (figure 6 (b) and (c)) may
be due to lower Reynolds number effects.
the shock presence is first felt. Reverse
flow ends at the reattachment point, but the As seen from figure 8, the SST model
flow is still highly retarded. The main separates too early.
parameters that influence the extent of the
upstream extent are the upstream Mach
number, Reynolds number, ramp angle (α),
and boundary layer thickness.
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