Towards natural transition in compressible boundary layers

• Autor(a) principal: Gaviria Martínez, Germán Andrés
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Texto Completo: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18148/tde-24052017-114027/
• topic: Camada limite compressível; Camada limite incompressível; Compressible boundary layer; DNS simulation; Incompressible boundary layer; Instabilidade secundária; Mecânica dos fluídos computacional; Natural transition; Pacote de ondas; Secondary instability; Simulação DNS; Transição natural; Transição para turbulência; Transition to turbulence; Wave packet

In this work, a DNS code was developed to investigate problems on transition in subsonic compressible boundary layer on a flat plate. Code validation tests were performed for linear and nonlinear stages of transition, on incompressible and compressible regimes. The focus of the present work is to investigate natural transition in subsonic boundary layers modeled by wave packets; and perform a preliminary study of transition induced by white noise. Three main problems were considered, namely, a DNS simulation and analysis of the ex- periment (MEDEIROS; GASTER, 1999b) of wave packet evolution on incompressible boundary layer, the influence of compressibility on wave packet evolution at subsonic Mach numbers and finally, a preliminary study of the evolution of a white noise perturbation in the boundary layer at Mach 0.2 and Mach 0.9. Comparisons between numerical and experimental results show remarkably good agreement in the linear and nonlinear stages, in both, spatial and Fourier spaces. A numerical simulation of this experiment and the analysis carried out is not available in the literature for wave packets in the incompressible boundary layer. The nonlinear modal analysis performed established the existence of tuned fundamental and subharmonic resonance of H-type and K-type in the packet. Influence of compressibility in the wave packet evolution was here investigated in boundary layers at Mach 0.7 and Mach 0.9. There are no works reported in the literature on wave packets in compressible subsonic boundary layer. In the linear regime, the oblique modes were the most unstable for Mach > 0.7, as expected by the results of the literature. In the nonlinear regime, strong streaks were observed, associated with low frequency modes that eventually decay downstream. An isolated wave packet at Mach 0.9 showed nonlinear amplification only in the subharmonic band, which may be associated to H-type or detuned resonance. However this packet has a relatively stable character. On the other hand, at Mach 0.9 spanwise interaction of wave packet pairs were more unstable than the isolated case, because stable modes for the isolated packet evolution becomes unstable in the wave packet interaction. This scenario evidenced the presence of oblique transition. Finally, the nonlinear evolution of the same white noise disturbance at Mach 0.2 and Mach 0.9 were observed to be completely different. In the incompressible boundary layer localized lambda vortex structures were observed, that could be associated to the local presence of H-type and/or K-type resonance. In the compressible regime, longitudinal vortex structures distributed across the entire domain seemed to be linked to oblique transition. In the white noise evolution, compressibility seems to have a stronger effect than in the wave packet evolution. In the conditions considered, the wave packet interaction appear to be a better representation of white noise compressible transition scenario.