Direct numerical simulation on the receptivity, instability, and transition of hypersonic boundary layers

X Zhong, X Wang - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The prediction of the laminar-turbulent transition of boundary layers is critically important to
the development of hypersonic vehicles because the transition has a first-order impact on …

High-order accurate, low numerical diffusion methods for aerodynamics

JA Ekaterinaris - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2005 - Elsevier
In recent years numerical methods have been widely used to effectively resolve complex
flow features of aerodynamics flows with meshes that are reasonable for today's computers …

Assessment of high-resolution methods for numerical simulations of compressible turbulence with shock waves

E Johnsen, J Larsson, AV Bhagatwala… - Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
Flows in which shock waves and turbulence are present and interact dynamically occur in a
wide range of applications, including inertial confinement fusion, supernovae explosion, and …

Direct numerical simulations of hypersonic boundary-layer transition for a flared cone: fundamental breakdown

C Hader, HF Fasel - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
Direct numerical simulations (DNS) were carried out to investigate the laminar–turbulent
transition for a flared cone at Mach 6 at zero angle of attack. The cone geometry of the flared …

Direct numerical simulation of transition in a sharp cone boundary layer at Mach 6: fundamental breakdown

J Sivasubramanian, HF Fasel - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015 - cambridge.org
Direct numerical simulations (DNS) were performed to investigate the laminar–turbulent
transition in a boundary layer on a sharp cone with an isothermal wall at Mach 6 and at zero …

Receptivity of a supersonic boundary layer over a flat plate. Part 1. Wave structures and interactions

Y Ma, X Zhong - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2003 - cambridge.org
This paper is the first part of a two-part study on the mechanisms of the receptivity to
disturbances of a Mach 4.5 flow over a flat plate by using both direct numerical simulations …

A fifth-order low-dissipation discontinuity-resolving TENO scheme for compressible flow simulation

T Liang, F Xiao, W Shyy, L Fu - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
For compressible flows characterized by a wide range of flow length scales and
discontinuities, it is still an open challenge to design the optimal schemes, which resolve the …

Towards simulating natural transition in hypersonic boundary layers via random inflow disturbances

C Hader, HF Fasel - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
A random forcing approach was implemented into a high-order accurate finite-difference
code in order to investigate 'natural'laminar–turbulent transition in hypersonic boundary …

Vortical structures behind a sphere at subcritical Reynolds numbers

G Yun, D Kim, H Choi - Physics of Fluids, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Large eddy simulations of turbulent flow over a sphere are conducted at subcritical
Reynolds numbers (⁠ Re= 3700 and 10 4⁠) based on the freestream velocity and sphere …

Implicit shock tracking using an optimization-based high-order discontinuous Galerkin method

MJ Zahr, A Shi, PO Persson - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
A novel framework for resolving discontinuous solutions of conservation laws, eg, contact
lines, shock waves, and interfaces, using implicit tracking and a high-order discontinuous …