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Unsteady transonic flows in two-dimensional channels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

T. C. Adamson
T. C. Adamson
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
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Abstract

A two-dimensional, unsteady, transonic, irrotational, inviscid flow of a perfect gas with constant specific heats is considered. The analysis involves perturbations from a uniform sonic isentropic flow. The governing perturbation potential equations are derived for various orders of the ratio of the characteristic time associated with a temporal flow disturbance to the time taken by a sonic disturbance to traverse the transonicregime. The case where this ratio is large compared to one is studied in detail. A similarity solution involving an arbitrary function of time is found and it is shown that this solution corresponds to unsteady chimel flows with either stationary or time-varying wall shapes. Numerical computations are presented showing the temporal changes in flow structure as a disturbance dies out exponentially for the following typical nozzle flows: simple accelerating (Meyer) flow and flow with supersonic pockets (Taylor and limiting Taylor flow).

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , 11 April 1972 , pp. 437 - 449
Copyright
© 1972 Cambridge University Press

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