Assessment of heat transfer and Mach number effects on high-speed turbulent boundary layers

M Cogo, U Baù, M Chinappi, M Bernardini… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
High-speed vehicles experience a highly challenging environment in which the freestream
Mach number and surface temperature greatly influence aerodynamic drag and heat …

[HTML][HTML] Decomposition of the wall-heat flux of compressible boundary layers

D Xu, P Ricco, L Duan - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We use the method developed by Elnahhas and Johnson [“On the enhancement of
boundary layer skin friction by turbulence: An angular momentum approach,” J. Fluid Mech …

Spectral analysis of turbulence kinetic and internal energy budgets in hypersonic turbulent boundary layers

Y Fan, W Li - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
The evolution of turbulence kinetic and internal energy plays a critical role in aerodynamics
and thermodynamics. Following the previous study on the framework of energy exchange in …

Resolvent-based analysis of hypersonic turbulent boundary layers with/without wall cooling

Y Fan, W Li, RD Sandberg - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The ability of the low-rank approximation of hypersonic turbulent boundary layers
with/without wall cooling is examined with the linear resolvent operator in a compressible …

Eddy-viscosity-improved resolvent analysis of compressible turbulent boundary layers

Y Fan, M Kozul, W Li, RD Sandberg - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
An improved resolvent analysis is proposed in the regime of compressible turbulent
boundary layers. To better model nonlinear processes in the input, the resolvent framework …

Correlations between wall heat flux and Reynolds shear stress/turbulent heat flux in compressible turbulent boundary layers

Y Fan, M Kozul, W Li, RD Sandberg - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
This study investigates the correlation between the fluctuating wall heat flux, and the
distribution and transport of Reynolds shear stress and turbulent heat flux in compressible …