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Based on full unsteady compressible Navier–Stokes equations a direct numerical simulation of the linear and nonlinear stages of the laminar-turbulent transition in boundary layer of a flate plate at the freestream Mach number M = 2 is carried out.
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The work was financially supported by the Russian National Foundation (Grant No. 14-11-00490).
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Kudryavtsev, A.N., Khotyanovsky, D.V. Direct numerical simulation of transition to turbulence in a supersonic boundary layer. Thermophys. Aeromech. 22, 559–568 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869864315050042
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