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Direct numerical simulations of instability development and transition to turbulence in a supersonic boundary layer on a flat plate are performed. The computations are carried out for moderate supersonic (free-stream Mach number M = 2) and hypersonic (M = 6) velocities. The boundary layer development is simulated, which includes the stages of linear growth of disturbances, their nonlinear interaction, stochastization, and turbulent flow formation. A laminar–turbulent transition initiated by distributed roughness of the plate surface at the Mach number M = 2 is also considered.
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Original Russian Text © D.V. Khotyanovsky, A.N. Kudryavtsev.
Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 58, No. 5, pp. 80–92, September–October, 2017.
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Khotyanovsky, D.V., Kudryavtsev, A.N. Direct numerical simulation of the transition to turbulence in a supersonic boundary layer on smooth and rough surfaces. J Appl Mech Tech Phy 58, 826–836 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S002189441705008X
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