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The laminar-turbulent transition is experimentally studied in boundary-layer flows on cones with a rectangular axisymmetric step in the base part of the cone and without the step. The experiments are performed in an A-1 two-step piston-driven gas-dynamic facility with adiabatic compression of the working gas with Mach numbers at the nozzle exit M ∞ = 12–14 and pressures in the settling chamber P0 = 60–600 MPa. These values of parameters allow obtaining Reynolds numbers per meter near the cone surface equal to Re 1e = (53–200) · 106 m −1. The transition occurs at Reynolds numbers Re tr = (2.3–5.7) · 106.
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Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 76–83, May–June, 2007.
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Vasil’ev, A.A., Rychkov, V.N. & Topchiyan, M.E. Laminar-turbulent transition in the boundary layer on cones in a hypersonic flow at high Reynolds numbers per meter. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 48, 361–367 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10808-007-0045-4
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