Influence of periodic wakes on the development of a boundary layer

Autor: Robert Houdeville, Xavier de Saint Victor
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: Aerospace Science and Technology. 4:371-381
ISSN: 1270-9638
DOI: 10.1016/s1270-9638(00)01068-3
Popis: The flow in turbomachinery is strongly influenced by the rotor-stator interactions. It is known that the unsteadiness of the flow has for effect to advance the laminar-turbulent transition and to alter the heat transfer. The problem of the wake-boundary layer interaction has been studied experimentally by using a simplified geometrical configuration. The stator blade is simulated by a flat plate on which the development of the boundary layer disturbed by periodic wakes is observed. The wakes are generated by moving bars having a circular section, put upstream of the flat plate and running with a constant velocity in the wind of a low-speed tunnel. Numerical studies relating to the phenomenon of interaction are limited. Part of the experimental study has been carried out in a fully turbulent flow in order to avoid the problem of transition. These results are compared with those from a code solving the fully turbulent unsteady boundary layer equations.
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