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The unsteady three-dimensional separated flow on a wall induced by a square protrusion (approximately twice the local boundary layer thickness in width and height), and its control by means of passive suction through holes, is investigated…
We present the synchronized unsteady wall pressure measurements performed at the circumference of a full scale 35 m circular chimney submitted to natural wind. The atmospheric turbulent boundary layer generates a turbulence intensity of 15…
This work investigates the self-excited shock wave oscillations in a three-dimensional planar over-expanded nozzle turbulent flow by means of Detached Eddy Simulations. Time resolved wall pressure measurements are used as primary…
A canonical wavy surface exposed to a Mach 2 flow is investigated through high-frequency Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP), Kulite measurements, and shadowgraph imaging. The wavy surface features a compression and expansion region, two…
Shock-boundary layer interactions (SBLI) on hypersonic cone step flows exhibit a range of intrinsic unsteady behaviors, from shear-layer oscillations to large-scale pulsations. This work investigates the unsteadiness in a cone-step geometry…
Hypersonic leading-edge separation is studied towards understanding the varying shock-related unsteadiness with freestream Reynolds number ($1.66 \times 10^5 \leq Re_D \leq 5.85 \times 10^5$) in the newly constructed hypersonic Ludwieg…
A direct numerical simulation of an oblique shock wave impinging on a turbulent boundary layer at Mach number 2.28 is carried out at moderate Reynolds number, simulating flow conditions similar to those of the experiment by Dupont et al.…
Hydraulic jumps are oftentimes encountered in natural and human-made environments. The transition from supercritical to subcritical flow involves large energy dissipation rates and substantial air entrainment, preventing the use of…
The low-frequency unsteady motions behind a backward-facing step (BFS) in a turbulent flow at $Ma=1.7$ and $Re_\infty=1.3718\times 10^5$ is investigated using a well-resolved large-eddy simulation (LES). The instantaneous flow field…
The work addresses 2D and 3D turbulent transonic flows past a wall with an expansion corner. A curved shock wave is formed upstream of a cylinder located above the corner. Numerical solutions of the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations…
The unsteady separated flow over the three-dimensional Boeing Gaussian Bump is investigated at a Reynolds number based on bump height $Re_H = 2.26\times10^5$ using unsteady wall-pressure measurements and planar particle image velocimetry…
The mechanisms governing the low-frequency unsteadiness in the shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction at Mach 2 are considered. The investigation is conducted based on the numerical database issued from large-eddy simulations…
This study explores experimentally the turbulent flow in a laboratory flume, interacting with waves propagated against the flow. It focuses a region of wave-blocking for which there is a streamwise location on the water surface, where the…
A delayed detached eddy simulation (DDES) of an overexpanded nozzle flow with shock-induced separation is carried out at a Reynolds number equal to 1.7 10^7. The flow unsteadiness, characterised by self-sustained shock oscillations, induces…
Shock related unsteadiness over axisymmetric spiked body configurations is experimentally investigated at a freestream supersonic Mach number of 2.0 at 0$^\circ$ angle of attack. Three different forebody configurations mounted with a sharp…
The paper gives experimental observations on the hypersonic flow past an axisymmetric flat-face cylinder with a protruding sharp-tip spike at a freestream Mach number of $M_\infty = 8.16$ at two different freestream Reynolds numbers based…
This paper concerns the dynamic stability of the steady 3-D wave structure of a planar normal shock front intersecting perpendicularly to a planar solid wall for unsteady potential flows. The stability problem can be formulated as a free…
The direction and magnitude of energy transfer between turbulence scale brought about by external forcing on a turbulent boundary layer are uncovered through the bispectrum, bicoherence, and biphase. The bispectrum is a third-order,…
We perform direct numerical simulations of shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions (SBLI) at Mach number M = 1.7 to investigate the influence of the state of the incoming boundary layer on the interaction properties. We reproduce and extend…
The evolution of a two-phase, air and unsaturated water vapor, time decaying, shearless, turbulent layer has been studied in the presence of both stable and unstable perturbations of the normal temperature lapse rate. The top interface…