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An asymptotic theory of the neutral stability curve of a supersonic boundary layer in a vibrationally excited molecular gas on a flat plate is constructed. The equations of the two-temperature viscous heat-conducting gas dynamics are considered as the initial mathematical model of the flow. On the basis of their linearization about the self-similar boundary layer solution for a perfect gas, a spectral problem is derived for the eighth-order system of linear ordinary differential equations. An algebraic secular equation with a typical decoupling into inviscid and viscous parts is derived from the linear combination of the boundary values of its solutions decreasing outside the boundary layer which solved numerically. It is shown that the neutral stability curves calculated in this way confirm the effect of increasing flow stability against the background of the relaxation process and within 12–15% agree with the previously obtained results of the direct numerical solution of the full spectral problem. The solution of the simplified system of equations for calculating the critical Reynolds number gives a similar result.
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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Prikladnaya Matematika i Mekhanika, 2019, Vol. 83, No. 5–6, pp. 749–769.
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Grigoryev, Y.N., Ershov, I.V. Asymptotic Estimate of Stability of a Supersonic Boundary Layer in a Vibrationally Excited Gas on a Plate. Fluid Dyn 54, 1020–1037 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0015462819080032
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