Nose-tip bluntness effects on transition at hypersonic speeds

P Paredes, MM Choudhari, F Li, JS Jewell… - Journal of Spacecraft …, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
The existing database of transition measurements in hypersonic ground facilities has
established that as the nose-tip bluntness is increased the onset of boundary-layer transition …

Nonmodal growth of traveling waves on blunt cones at hypersonic speeds

P Paredes, MM Choudhari, F Li, JS Jewell, RL Kimmel - AIAA Journal, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
The existing database of transition measurements in hypersonic ground facilities has
established that, as the nose-tip bluntness is increased, the onset of boundary-layer …

3D global optimal forcing and response of the supersonic boundary layer

B Bugeat, JC Chassaing, JC Robinet… - Journal of Computational …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D optimal forcing and response of a 2D supersonic boundary layer are obtained
by computing the largest singular value and the associated singular vectors of the global …

Instability wave–streak interactions in a supersonic boundary layer

P Paredes, MM Choudhari, F Li - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
The interaction of stationary streaks undergoing non-modal growth with modally unstable
instability waves in a supersonic flat-plate boundary-layer flow is studied using numerical …

Free-stream receptivity of a hypersonic blunt cone using input–output analysis and a shock-kinematic boundary condition

DA Cook, JW Nichols - Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
Traditional stability tools have done much in the last few decades to demonstrate the
significance of modal instabilities as a pathway for laminar to turbulent transition in …

Transient growth in diabatic boundary layers with fluids at supercritical pressure

PC Boldini, B Bugeat, JWR Peeters, M Kloker… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
In the region close to the thermodynamic critical point and in the proximity of the
pseudoboiling (Widom) line, strong property variations substantially alter the growth of …

Linear Instabilities over Ogive-Cylinder Models at Mach 6

A Scholten, P Paredes, J Luke Hill, M Borg, JS Jewell… - AIAA Journal, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
Computational investigations of a tangent ogive-cylinder geometry with varying forebodies
at zero degrees angle of attack are presented. The model geometry and conditions are …

Measurements on a blunt cone-cylinder-flare at mach 6

EK Benitez, MP Borg, JL Hill, A Scholten… - AIAA SciTech 2023 …, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-1245. vid A blunt cone-cylinder-
flare model was tested at the AFRL Mach-6 Ludwieg Tube at 0-degree angle of attack …

Subsonic and supersonic mechanisms in compressible turbulent boundary layers: a perspective from resolvent analysis

A Madhusudanan, BJ McKeon - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.14223, 2022 - arxiv.org
In this study we isolate the mechanisms that are separately responsible for amplifying the
two distinct sets of modes that appear in a linearized Navier-Stokes based model for …

Interaction of a tunnel-like acoustic disturbance field with a blunt cone boundary layer at Mach 8

Y Liu, M Schuabb, L Duan, P Paredes… - AIAA Aviation 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-3250. vid The existing
measurements of laminar-to-turbulent transition over circular cones in conventional (ie," …