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Some features of steady separated flow from low speed to hypersonic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2016

S. L. Gai
S. L. Gai*
Affiliation:
School of Aerospace and Mechnical Engineering, Canberra, Australia
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Steady non-vortex shedding base flow behind a bluff body is considered. Such a flow is characterised by the flow separation at the trailing edge of the body with an emerging shear layer which reattaches on the axis with strong recompression and recirculating flow bounded by the base, the shear layer, and the axis.

Steady wake flows behind a bluff body at low speeds have been studied for more than a century (for example, Kirchhoff; Riabouchinsky). Recently, research on steady bluff body wake flow at low speeds has been reviewed and reinterpreted by Roshko. Roshko has also commented on some basic aspects of steady supersonic base flow following on from Chapman and Korst analyses.

In the present paper, we examine the steady base flow features both at low speeds and supersonic speeds in the light of Roshko’s model and expand on some further aspects of base flows at supersonic and hypersonic speeds, not covered by Roshko.

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Technical note
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 112 , Issue 1128 , February 2008 , pp. 109 - 113
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 2008 

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