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Sensitivity of Boundary-Layer Stability and Transition to Thermochemical Modeling

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The presence of transitional flow in the hypersonic regime, and the difficulty of accurately predicting the point of transition, is a major source of uncertainty, particularly for predicting wall heating. Potential applications of improved hypersonic boundary layer stability and transition prediction include reentry vehicles, hypersonic transports, and defense applications. Boundary layer transition in these applications particularly impacts heat transfer, affecting material compliance and ablation rates, and potentially leads to either failure of the vehicle or reduced performance due to overdesigned heat shielding. Chemical and thermal nonequilibrium effects are relevant to hypersonic boundary layer stability and transition, where molecular dissociation, chemical reactions, and thermal nonequilibrium may occur. To accurately model the aerothermodynamics and boundary layer stability of such boundary layer flows, the chemical and thermal nonequilibrium effects can be taken into account in the mean flow and in the stability equations. The LAngley Stability and TRansition Analysis Code (LASTRAC) version 3.0 accommodates a variety of models for thermochemical and transport properties, and the gas model can be varied to either include or neglect chemical reactions and thermal nonequilibrium, independent of the mean flow solution. These capabilities are used to investigate the sensitivity of boundary layer stability and transition location with respect to a selection of parameters controlling the gas model, freestream conditions, and fluid properties.

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Acknowledgements

This work was funded under NASA contract number NNL13A08B, task orders NNL17AA56T and 80LARC18F0084, supported by the Hypersonics Technology Project in the NASA Aeronautics Mission Directorate. I would also like to thank Pedro Paredes, Robert Baurle, Kyle Thompson, Elizabeth Lee-Rausch, and Jeff White for their input and fruitful discussions.

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Kline, H.L., Chang, CL., Li, F. (2022). Sensitivity of Boundary-Layer Stability and Transition to Thermochemical Modeling. 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_50

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