Book Description

This report is the Final Technical Report for AFOSR Grant 89-0420, monitored by Dr James McMichael, for the period June 15, 1989 to October 14, 1992. Under this program, research was performed (1) to describe the structure of the large-scale motions in supersonic turbulent boundary layers, (2) to study the interaction of that turbulence with shock waves and strategies for controlling the interaction, (3) to differentiate between Mach and Reynolds number effects on turbulence structure in wall-bounded flows, and (4) to develop and implement new non-intrusive diagnostic techniques. The research is aimed at providing physical insight, and scaling information, for the development of turbulence models appropriate for supersonic shear layers. The primary experimental means used in these investigations were the Rayleigh scattering technique to study the instantaneous density field, the RELIEF line tagging method to study the instantaneous velocity field, and a dual hot-wire technique to obtain simultaneous velocity and density signals ... Boundary layers, Turbulence, Shock wave boundary layer interaction.