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Receptivity plays a crucial role in the physics-base methodology for prediction of the transition onset location in the boundary-layer flows. A major stumbling block for developing of this methodology is sensitivity of transition to the initial and boundary conditions. In the case of relatively small free-stream and body-induced disturbances, the transition onset can be predicted by the amplitude method, where receptivity and instability growth stages are simulated using the linear theory. In this framework, receptivity affects the instability amplitude at the transition onset via the three major factors: the location of receptivity region, the coherence of external forcing and the spectral content of external disturbances. The role of these factors in the transition prediction methodology is estimated for the boundary-layer flows past a supersonic compression corner and a flat plate in supersonic and hypersonic free streams. In particular, it is shown that large uncertainty in atmospheric turbulence gives marginal error in the transition onset location. This finding encourages further developments of the physics-based amplitude method for transition prediction.
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This work has been carried out at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University) with financial support of the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 19-19-00470 – section 2; project No. 19-79-10132 – section 4).
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Egorov, I.V., Fedorov, A.V., Novikov, A.V., Chuvakhov, P.V. (2022). The Role of Receptivity in Prediction of High-Speed Laminar-Turbulent Transition. In: Sherwin, S., Schmid, P., Wu, X. (eds) IUTAM Laminar-Turbulent Transition. IUTAM Bookseries, vol 38. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67902-6_47
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