Real Gas Effects on Receptivity to Roughness in Hypersonic Swept Blunt Flat-Plate Boundary Layers

Abstract

Temperatures within the boundary layers of high-enthalpy hypersonic flows can soar to thousands or even tens of thousands of degrees, leading to significant real gas phenomena. Although there has been significant research on real gas effects on hypersonic boundary layer stability, their impact on the boundary layer’s receptive stage is still poorly understood. Most aerodynamic boundary layers in flight vehicles are three-dimensional. Because of complex geometry and significant crossflow effects, the crossflow mode in three-dimensional boundary layers is crucial in hypersonic vehicle design. In this study, a linear stability analysis (LST) accounting for chemical nonequilibrium effects (CNE) and its adjoint form (ALST) is developed to investigate the real gas effects on the stability and receptivity of stationary crossflow modes. The results indicate that real gas effects significantly influence the receptivity of stationary crossflow modes. Specifically, chemical nonequilibrium effects destabilize the crossflow modes but reduce the receptivity coefficients of the stationary crossflow modes. The Mach number effect was also investigated. It was found that increasing the Mach number stabilizes the stationary crossflow modes, but the receptivity coefficients increase. As the Mach number progressively rises, these effects alternately dominate, leading to a non-monotonic shift in the transition position.