Numerical Investigation on Transition of Shock Induced Boundary Layer

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The purpose or this paper is to examine the application or empirical models or boundary layer transition to the situation of shock wave propagation. Two-dimensional numerical simulations of shock wave propagation and shock-induced boundary layer motion were performed with the turbulent intermittency transport model of Menter et al (2004). The Launder-Sharma low-Reynolds k-ϵ model was used for the turbulence model and the boundary layer profiles were compared against the theoretical laminar profiles and the empirical turbulent profiles. The predicted transition Reynolds number in the present study was in good agreement with the shock tube experimental data.

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